Word: penchant
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...decisions, and the story of how they were reached, are important for another reason: they throw a sharp, and sometimes surprising, light on how each candidate's mind works. For example: Which man holds endless meetings, listens to a wide variety of advisers, has a penchant for reviving discussion of ideas his counselors had thought were rejected, delays a final decision until the last possible moment and discloses so little of his own thoughts that key aides are unsure until the very end how he will come down? That description was written many times about Clinton during his first...
...also a bundle of contradictions. He has a tendency to employ his mouth and brain sequentially, but has an entrepreneur's penchant for bold ideas. He brings a shopkeeper's mentality to some costs, yet spends lavishly on quests such as the Goodwill Games, and doesn't want to get rid of favorite assets such as the Atlanta Braves. He abjures debt, but it almost drowned him after he bought MGM for about $1 billion...
...still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better, Lloyd says, Bodine...
Throughout the past week, Arafat has demonstrated his new penchant for referring to the (not surprisingly) strong Jewish presence in Jerusalem as the "Judaization of Jerusalem." Arafat has conveniently forgotten the central importance of Jerusalem to the Jews throughout their history. Over the centuries that the Jews were exiled from their homeland, and to this very day, observant Jews continue to face Jerusalem as they pray three times daily. The city has remained a symbol of hope for Jews living in oppressive regimes in countless countries over the ages. Just last week, Jews in the Diaspora concluded the Yom Kippur...
...formally charged. He later held sub-Cabinet jobs in the Ford and Carter administrations and counseled such national politicians as Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt. He was credited with alerting many politicians to the problems of preserving U.S. competitiveness and maintaining the nation's infrastructure. True, he has a penchant for apocalyptic statements--e.g., the U.S. might become a "Japanese economic colony." That, however, should fit right in with Perot's own great sucking sounds...