Word: temperamental
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In Touchpoints Three to Six, Brazelton and Sparrow profile four imagined children of different temperaments as they progress from nursery school to first grade. Brazelton and Sparrow are great believers in the power of parents' modeling good behavior for their children, and they give readers the same treatment--showing us...
But after campaigning in 178 congressional districts in 2000, he kept the House under G.O.P. control and earned the fealty of his troops, who often shout, "Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive...
That temperament is ill suited to the byplays, gambits and bluffs of negotiation and is one reason his big tax-reform plan and other domestic initiatives haven't got far. But no Mexican President--ever--has gone over in the U.S. the way Fox has. "I was watching the political...
Lear has the sort of temperament that might be described by Archie Bunker as "hebe Hollywood egghead" ? or, if Archie knew the word, compulsive. The only eye in the hurricane of activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's...
Hobart and Smith sociology professor H. Wesley Perkins, who conducted the 1996 study, was intrigued by these findings. If teenagers--conformers by temperament--believe drinking is rampant on campus, might they be more inclined to pick up the habit? If on the other hand, they knew that the heavy drinkers...