Word: hardheadedness
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To India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes...
Descended from a long line of weavers who set up looms in Valdagno nearly 200 years ago, the clan is headed by hardheaded, domineering Count Gaetano Marzotto, 68, who added hotels to his business after being bitten by marauding bedbugs during a stop in a hotel in Southern Italy. Made...
British Journalist Anthony Sampson returned home in 1955 after four years in not-so-dark Africa and soon became convinced that the Establishment was to blame for his country's slow, erratic reactions to its new place in the postwar world. He set forth on a close, hardheaded examination...
Spaak closed his hardheaded appeal with a plea for understanding the aims of the new Europe. "To try to unify Europe is to try to break through frontiers which are too narrow for today. To unify Europe is not to fall back on an autarchic concept; it is a step...
Romney, who is technically on leave of absence, has been succeeded by a duumvirate consisting of Chairman Richard E. Cross, 52, an urbane, hardheaded lawyer who is chief executive officer and makes the long-term decisions; and President Roy Abernethy, 56, an ebullient onetime salesman, who directs day-to-day...