Word: solvers
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Because of his versatility and his ability as a problem solver, Dunlop was called on again and again by his country, by the University and by both sides of the labor movement to smooth the way toward practical solutions...
...worse, I feel fortunate that my problem was noticed early and I was taught to read at home before beginning school. Still, I am just as likely today to walk into a doorjamb as to make it through a doorway successfully. I am, however, an imaginative, practical problem solver as well as ambidextrous. My creativity far outweighs dyslexia's negatives. Let's hope the stigma is lifted for all of us who see the world a bit differently. PENNY TASSIN Linden, Texas...
...kind of feeds my life. It’s a dream to be able to produce, with Cameron and Paula Wagner, a picture like this. I’ve always pushed myself. And now I’ve got kids. I’m a problem solver, and I enjoy that. You learn how to solve problems by making a lot of mistakes and going through it. But I think it feeds my life. There’s nothing like working hard at the end of the day, and you’re lying in bed, and you think...
When you ask Powell where he had put his foot down, he pauses a long time, then says, "Hmmm." He's most intent on preserving team harmony. He portrays himself as done with ambition: "I don't have any personal need to shine." He says he's a "problem solver," the practical man who knows how to make the system work with minimal friction, the one who carries out the vision, not the one who imagines...
...hoping that delivering a more pliant Pyongyang to the negotiating table - as China appears to have done - will cement its ties with Seoul. Besides transferring responsibility for the North Korean basket-case economy to Seoul, it also raises China's prestige as a responsible and powerful regional problem-solver. Beijing wouldn't be at all sad to see the departure of all those U.S. troops from its doorstep, and it would look to the long-term reunification of two mortal-enemy Korean states as a model for its own relationship with Taiwan...