Word: detachedness
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On the surface, relations among the nearly 600 delegates to last week's symposium on the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were cordial, detached and scientific. After all, the Soviets had agreed to the extraordinary 62-nation conference, sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a spirit of international...
Thatcher, who had surgery for a detached retina in 1983, remains in vigorous overall health. Within hours of the operation she was studying government papers. Said one aide: "Anyone who thinks she'll cut down her work load doesn't know Margaret Thatcher."
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration...
During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact...
His skills as a communicator, Reagan notes, are integral to his political success. "I believe in taking the big issues to the people," he says, paraphrasing Jefferson's belief that the "American people, if they know all the facts, will never make a mistake." It was a talent he learned...