Word: mindset
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...year seem a distant memory, and something, anything, is needed for a fix. Maybe it's some international game on PBS, or a highlight film at three in the morning. Most likely, though, there's nothing until the first week of October and opening day has arrived. The hockey mindset grabs you, and that...
Whatever the merits of this mindset, it is deeply disturbing to experts on Arabia−and to none more than Minos Zombanakis, a Crete-born and Harvard-educated banker who straddles two worlds. For over 20 years, Zombanakis, 52, has been advising Arabs and Iranians on how to deal with Western executives, and vice versa. He knows the Saudis about as well as any Westerner can. He ranges far from his elegant London offices, where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon...
...side, Moynihan contends, a certain mindset has gained sway since the Second World War that bears responsibility for our loss of ground. It has involved the elevation of what he defines as "high politics"--arms and strategy--and the demotion of "low politics"--questions of political and cultural values and institutions. "A kind of male/female principle took hold," he argues...
...There's just no room in the media," Frank said. "The senatorial and gubernatorial races are taking up all the focus and Lew can't get enough exposure. Unless he can get the exposure, the voters will go to the polls with this Crane-Democrat mindset...
There is no estimating the strength of this "mindset," either. Not only has Robert Crane become a kind of institution in the Massachusetts political-corporate structure, he plays tennis with Bobby Orr. It is impossible to grow up in Massachusetts and NOT know who Robert Crane is, unless you ignore the sports pages. Golf with Yaz and Jim Ed ever since the 1975 World Series. Fun and games with Orr and Esposito during the Bruins' Stanley Cup years. He has famous and infamous connections (depending on where you bank) with Massachusetts businesses...