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...years as managing editor has provided an answer to the inevitable question about how Downie compares with Bradlee: the cautious and bureaucratic Downie would not even want to match the older editor's riverboat-gambler style. In contrast to Bradlee's instinct for the jugular, Downie is such a stickler for down-the- middle objectivity that he refuses to vote in any election. Whereas Bradlee was autocratic, Downie prefers to reach decisions by consensus. He sees his job as "setting priorities and settling fights" rather than conceptualizing and leading the Post toward new frontiers...
...then moved with his family to a new | neighborhood in Huntington, Long Island, popular with young airline captains and their families. "If there were any problems, Jeff and I certainly felt isolated from them," says a boyhood chum, Martin Rowley. "Ours were perfect childhoods." Hazelwood's father was a stickler for discipline who permitted no drinking in his home...
...Derek gets his information best by reading, and he knows that," O'Brien says. "He's always been quite a stickler for getting things in writing. That requires a degree of thoughtfulness that is unusual. He doesn't like to handle issues in passing...He must have a deep-seated concern for ever seeming unprepared...
Although Shevardnadze enjoys a good joke, he is not a backslapper and insists on calling his aides by their formal names. A man of meticulous appearance who has been known to cast a flirtatious glance or two at the ladies, Shevardnadze is not a stickler for protocol; on entering a negotiating room, he unfailingly makes the rounds of all present, shaking hands and engaging in small talk. "You don't feel that he is full of his own importance," says a West German diplomat. "He's a really pleasant fellow to do business with...
...stickler for detail, TransDesigns Decorator Joan Caruso-Zinicola packs her van with shadow boxes, even containing seashells to complete the "traditional look," and raku pottery to be mounted on pedestals to "bring dead corners to life." Like most of her colleagues, she recommends local craftsmen and contractors and tries to keep them on schedule...