Word: minded
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...game of attempting to categorize the "Nixon style" goes on. Permit me to suggest that Mr. Nixon is, above all, tough-minded. The nation has never been more ready for such a quality of mind. Toughness, by definition, is like leather-durable, flexible, dynamic, and should in no sense be equated with hardness-inflexible, brittle and weak. Our new President will need-and possesses-firmness, judgment, commitment, compassion and dedication. History, of course, will make the ultimate judgment. I believe that the times demand these qualities and that President Nixon will demonstrate them...
Klein obviously has in mind using at least part of his dividend to finance some new mergers and acquisitions. Even with its surplus cut in half, Great American has more than the industrywide average of loss reserves in relation to its underwriting volume. "We did no milking," Klein insists. "We are staying in the insurance business. We paid about $500 million for the company, so obviously we aren't going to hurt ourselves. What many businessmen fail to keep in mind is that the proper utilization of capital is the cornerstone of U.S. industry." That, of course...
...Mind. Stone is the founder, president and chairman of Combined Insurance Co. of America, which has assets of $142 million, and he estimates his personal wealth at more than $400 million. A high school dropout, he says that he owes everything to a "Positive Mental Attitude"-which he usually abbreviates as P.M.A. At Combined Insurance, P.M.A. is the company way. The chairman's sayings are reverently quoted in company literature and at conferences. Some favorites: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve," and "With every disadvantage there's an equivalent advantage." P.M.A...
Partridge started out busking with pretty much the same motives in mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife...
...paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain at once fearful and frolicsome-as if Bruegel's earthy dancing peasantry had been set down in a demon-filled scene by Hieronymus Bosch...