Word: decorum
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...This potential clash in substance may be accompanied by an even more pronounced clash in style—from the outside, Summers’ famously direct managerial style is ripe to collide with Knowles’ insistence on diplomacy and decorum. Although past Presidential-Dean pairings where both jobs were held by strong personalities have sometimes worked well, the transition may prove to be almost as great an adjustment for Knowles as it will for Summers...
...berets and aviator-style glasses?is the archetypal stage mother, Hong Kong-style. She is manager, contract-signer and accountant. She is clearly pleased with CoCo's success, though she says she would also be happy if her daughter was in medical school. Mom is uncompromising about manners and decorum, both personal and professional. CoCo says she wasn't allowed to talk to boys until she was 18. But her decorum has won her fans in every corner of Asia. At a concert in the Chinese city of Wuhan, 55,000 people showed up in a cold rainstorm. CoCo chose...
...side of the Bridge to the Twenty-first Century, in a post-millennial America so long at peace abroad that it has entered into a chronic state of warfare with itself at home, just to have something to do with its nastiness - even here, there are rules of decorum. And there are laws of political physics...
...liberal), a third (middle) and a third (conservative). Bush is losing his touch with the middling third. The left third and the right third operate from principle, and are stable in their allegiances. The middle third may change loyalties, blown this way or that by sometimes fatuous notions of decorum. If Bush continues to offend the middle's sense of the American story, he is headed for disaster in less than 18 months...
...Decorum about what? The environment, above all. Bush is repeating the Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...