Word: manner
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Casey confused? His manner may be bumbling and his mumble legendary, but associates contend that Casey, a speed-reader with an ability to assimilate complex information quickly, has one of the sharpest minds in the Government. "Bill Casey's the brightest guy I've met in my life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman...
Oddly for a photographer who is known for keeping an autograph book, Eisenstaedt is sometimes held to lack an autograph of his own, an unmistakable style in the manner of Andre Kertesz or W. Eugene Smith. But the signature his work bears is more a matter of spirit than style, an embrace of life's episodes that is as benign and enveloping as eyesight itself. His 1963 picture of children watching a puppet show in Paris is both the consummate example of his close-in approach and the best metaphor for his own excitement in seeing...
...textbooks "so clearly take a religious point of view and present it in a one-sided manner as the truth...
Each time the President gets into a political scrape, he retreats to the White House, Camp David or California, regroups his forces, remakes his political image and then feeds a calculated propaganda attack to the press, which eats it up. The crisis is dismantled in this manner...
Initially, however, the Barclays move will have little negative economic impact on South Africa. Barclays National will be operated by its new owners in much the same manner as it was when the British firm held a major stake in the company. Chris Ball, the managing director of Barclays National, noted that the South African firm would now be free to compete around the world with the British bank. Said he: "We are a very powerful bank, and we can continue extending our business abroad." Experts consider the bank's $116 million price tag a bargain for the South Africans...