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Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott describes Steiner as a conscientious investigator and thoughtful problem-solver, particularly in the area of federal investigations. He does more than merely defend the University, Scott says, he tries to understand and solve its problems...
...been known for imaginative ideas, probing insights or creative brilliance. Forty years ago, as he walked with a friend across the Yale campus to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Bush volunteered that he was not a real intellectual. He prides himself on being a practical man, a problem solver, a bit of an overachiever. Some friends say his most notable trait is his persistence. He had been running for President for 20 years...
...presidency, of course, is that soaring poetry and air castles of ideas are as alien to Dukakis as they are natural to Jesse Jackson. But in fairness, it must be said that the reality of a Dukakis presidency would be more uplifting than its anticipation. As a pragmatic problem solver, Dukakis is often at his best reacting decisively rather than initiating boldly. "Michael likes to make decisions," Hale Champion, the Governor's chief of staff, has said. "He never stalls to get irrelevant information. His basic impulse is to get on with things...
Some of the more doctrinaire opponents of arms control in the Administration feared that Warnke might be right. Richard Perle, whom Nitze brought to Washington in the late '60s and who served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense until earlier this year, remarked, "Paul is an inveterate problem solver." He did not mean it as a compliment. Nitze, however, took it as one, and he has lived up to Perle's apprehensions...
...premise is different from the jigsaw puzzle, which has one and only one solution. The tangram usually comes with a booklet (or in ancient China, several volumes) which are filled with pictures that the solver creates with the seven pieces with which he or she is provided...