Word: circumspection
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...item to international heights. "I firmly believe that Turkey's future lies with the West," he says in his modest Istanbul offices. Behind him hangs a framed picture of a giant Mavi billboard in Times Square. "We have nothing to do with Eastern culture." His son is more circumspect, but just as upbeat. "There is a lot of push and pull in Turkey being Muslim and yet Western, but Turkey is trying to connect with the West," he says. And connect they will. Following the New York store, Australia and Scandinavia are in the pipeline. Yes, the Turks are coming...
...unlike Rowley, she is circumspect and uses few words to make big points. You can tell she is sizing you up as she chats in her friendly way. She has a disarming manner that could be described as politely tenacious. In her accounting classes at Mississippi State University in the mid-1980s, Cooper used to sit in the front row, dead center, says Phyllis Massey, her college roommate. And she would proceed to pepper the professor with questions, oblivious to her classmates' disdain. "It didn't matter if the bell was fixin' to ring. If she wanted to know something...
...President, whose near obsession with extinguishing Saddam remains strong, was giving nothing away. Yet even he sounded slightly more circumspect than usual last week. Asked about Iraq in an Oval Office meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II, Bush paused for a long time and then said, "Saddam Hussein is a man who poisons his own people, who threatens his neighbors, who develops weapons of mass destruction. And I'll assure His Majesty, like I have in the past, we're looking at all options, the use of all tools. I'm a patient man. But I haven't changed...
...watches contentedly but nervously, bouncing from one foot to the other, his arms crossed tightly across his chest. Maybe it's showing new work to strangers. Maybe it's that the strangers are journalists. Last summer, the International Herald Tribune carried a story about him. He was circumspect, but following its publication, he received a number of inquiries from other news outlets. The story wasn't the problem; the publicity was. He was called in for an official visit to explain the article, line by line. He received another scolding after doing an interview on a Tokyo radio station...
Merry and maternal, she extended herself so easily and so warmly to her people that the circumspect London Times in 1980 judged her to be probably the most popular royal personage of all time. Britons were inclined to believe that her resplendent smile would never fade. Despite failing health, she managed to greet thousands of well-wishers outside her home on her 101st birthday celebration last August with a raised glass of champagne. Only seven weeks ago, although grief stricken and looking frail, she insisted on attending the funeral of her 71-year-old daughter, Princess Margaret. Last Saturday afternoon...