Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some seemed offended by the cold demeanor and untraceable sense of humor that the van-loads of secret services agents and national reporters brought with them from Washington...
...despite being welcomed into his home and collaborating with him over legal strategy, Simpson's attorneys often seemed awkward in his presence, and their collective demeanor in the courthouse bordered on stilted formality. They had little chemistry with Simpson. When Robert Baker and the rest of the team lunched near the Santa Monica courthouse, their client was rarely with them; he usually chose to eat with his sister and brother-in-law. Indeed, the trial has had wider personal repercussions for the Bakers. They have encountered social ostracism by some members of Los Angeles' well-heeled society...
...barreled through these past few months in some ways feminists should applaud, missing only a few days at her law firm, Cummings & Lockwood, and finding comfort in working late with her partners (some of whom are her best friends). The crease between her eyebrows that gives her a fierce demeanor disappears when she talks about the weekend in Paris she begins the next day with the two sisters, a brother and a niece she adores, thanks, she says, laughing, "to the $299 Air France special Bob Dole advertised right after the election." Whereas Morris was a slug for preaching family...
...shifts. The Republicans held their own conference in 1994 to ideologically mobilize their freshmen representatives in an attempt to ram the Contract with America through Congress in 100 days. Their legislative failure and Newt Gingrich's political freefall have led the GOP to attempt to adopt a more centrist demeanor...
...aware of his brilliance. He lays forth clearly and succinctly some of the boldest yet most cogent hypotheses in the epic campaign against HIV; at the same time, he operates nimbly through the budgetary and political pitfalls of the enterprise. And though he is monumentally tranquil in demeanor, he has been known to fling the occasional hot one-liner against naysayers--once, "It's the virus, stupid!" to those who insist HIV is not the cause of AIDS...