Word: mien
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...fulcrum in the war on terrorism. He oversees the world's toughest "neighborhood," spanning 25 countries from the Horn of Africa to the Himalayas. An Arabic speaker of Lebanese descent, he won the U.S. military's most difficult job last July. Although troops embrace Abizaid's muddy-boots mien, his soft-spoken demeanor gives him a cerebral air more common to the campus than to combat. The roots of terrorism "certainly don't lend themselves easily to military solutions," Abizaid says over breakfast. He knows that winning the peace in Iraq will be far more difficult than winning...
...except on casual Fridays, when jeans are the norm). Like Bush, staff members sweat only when they work out, which some seem to do to nearly the same manic degree as the President. The Clinton War Room has given way to the Bush Office Park. In this mien, the Bushies are eerily confident that things are going to turn around for them in the coming months. Here are what they see as the touchstones of their re-election...
...doddering Disney in 1984 and made it spout money. But since 1996, Disney has been sputtering. Eisner's outsize compensation, his somnolent board of directors and poor performances at ABC and Disney's theme parks and animation business have made him a target. Eisner's micromanaging style, imperious mien and inability to groom a successor--all perfectly acceptable when you're coining money--are now liabilities. Chief dissident Roy Disney, the founder's nephew, has called for his head, and Institutional Shareholders Services, an influential investor-advisory group, has recommended that its clients withhold their vote for Eisner...
When MIT President Charles M. Vest stepped to the podium last Friday to address more than 100 researchers and one White House advisor, his mien counterbalanced a series of pat presentations by the fast-talking colleagues who flanked him. Bent over the MIT-crested lectern, he cracked a few self-deprecating jokes in a West Virginia drawl and keyed through some Powerpoint slides bearing droll titles...
Horn may have a gentle mien, but his words roil Washington. He has used his mouthful of a title--Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families--to crusade for the government to take a more active role in promoting marriage. Horn believes that sustaining marriages is moral and cost efficient. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, vs. about one-fifth of children in two-parent families. Children from intact families are less likely to give birth out of wedlock or get in trouble with the law--both...