Word: pragmatist
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...seems to think he might make a pretty good one. "He is more passionate, more openly aggressive, more impulsive and more capable of commitment than was his brother, but fundamentally he also is neither liberal nor conservative; he is an ideologically uncommitted man," says Shannon. "He remains a hardheaded pragmatist intent upon exercising power in the best national interests of the United States and the cause of freedom...
Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over Nova Scotia's Conservative leadership in 1947, when the party did not hold a single seat in the provincial legislature. Nine years later he came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first...
...Triumvirate: In 1964, when the party Central Committee sacked Khrushchev, it promoted Kosygin-then First Deputy Premier-to Premier. Today, Leonid Brezhnev, an ebullient and sloganeering politician, acts as Russia's chairman of the board: Kosygin is the chief Soviet operating officer and head of government. A pragmatist, he remains aloof from ideological disputes and factional politics. Under his leadership, the government is slowly absorbing many of the administrative responsibilities long held by the party. The third member of the Kremlin triumvirate, President Nikolai Podgorny, is the least powerful, although in recent months he has emerged as a traveling...
...should be banned from the 500-arguing that it really was an "airplane," and that no piston-engined machine could possibly match the tremendous torque (1,000 foot-pounds) and acceleration produced by its 550-h.p. Pratt & Whitney power plant. But Foyt is nothing if not a pragmatist: he ordered a special "overdrive" gear installed in his Coyote-Ford to save his engine and cut down on fuel consumption. He was content to play tortoise to Jones's hare, drive at a steady pace and allow Parnelli to pull away-gambling that the turbine car would break down before...
Such critics reflect a tendency to categorize Martin as a diehard, unswerving conservative-but Martin's record belies the notion. He is, rather, a monetary pragmatist who makes, and changes, policy according to what he sees as current requirements. A lifelong Democrat, Martin was a successful Wall Street broker and a familiar figure in Manhattan nightspots in the '30s. When he was named chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in 1938, President Roosevelt told him: "Your job is the worst in the world-next to mine." After leaving the exchange, Martin served as president of the Export...