Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manner most of the time tends toward the bashful, tensed but not combative. He cannot afford to come on too strong. Many of his 60 working hours a week have been spent on the telephone trying to engage strangers-mumbly, uncertain teen-agers-in serious conversations about their lives. He has called hundreds of high school seniors in his two-county district, most of them WaHi Blue Devils...
...talks with President Amin Gemayel, Karami unveiled his new plan last week. It surprised most Lebanese and enraged many. For although the proposed Cabinet prudently included representatives from all six of Lebanon's main religious groups, it had only ten seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said...
...that he wears his greasy ambition on his sleeve, and that he is something of a political light-weight, but there's no denying that he has also done a fine job of shaking up the Washington establishment on the freeze issue. It was Markey's outsider, bad-boy manner that promised to inject some emotion into what so far has been a puling, punctilious campaign...
...wonderful to teach with him," said course teaching assistant Robert D. Riggs. "He has a classic gentlemanly manner and a great enthusiasm and love for his subject, which comes through in his teaching," he added...
...with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings. In two hours of closed-door hearings, CIA Director William Casey conceded that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had not been "adequately informed in a timely manner." Casey assured Senators that the mining operation had been halted, and that both the Senate and House intelligence committees would be notified of any similar operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who withdrew his resignation as vice chairman of the Senate...