Word: doering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finds another pot to stir." Meanwhile, the Secretary keeps the details of foreign troubles largely to himself, giving his aides inadequate guidance on handling those problems to which he is not devoting his efforts. Indeed, the broadest charge against Haig also reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor in the Nixon Administration, Henry Kissinger, but who basically lacks Kissinger's vision of global strategy. In this sense, his epic shuttle showed him both at his strongest-striving...
chose Methodist Bishop James Armstrong of Indiana for a three-year term as president. Strong-willed and outspoken, Armstrong, 57, is the sort of burly, smiling, old-fashioned doer who can wrangle with opponents while magically retaining their affection...
...leader of the Coalition for Better Television is an unprepossessing man. Slight and balding, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, 43, was born in Dumas, Miss., was ordained a Methodist minister and for 20 years preached to congregations in his home state. Wildmon has been a doer all along: he is the author of inspirational tracts (Treasured Thoughts, Graduation Gold, and 15 other books). He and his wife run a side business: leading tourist junkets to the Holy Land...
...been involved in major national decisions for some 20 years, beginning as a Pentagon staffer in the Kennedy Administration, he has almost always been a No. 2 man, a brilliant executor of policy formulated by others rather than a setter of goals and priorities. He is pre-eminently a doer who has ascended to a post where he will also have to prove himself as a thinker...
...Reagan relationship that you can say like him, hate her,' or 'hate him, like her.' You take them together, or you don't take them at all." Says another: "Ronnie is a nice man. Nancy isn't nice. Nancy is a doer, an achiever, a loyal friend and a good mother. But nice...