Word: temperamental
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He said he didn't have the temperament or patience to deal with a process devoid of a centralized bureaucratic structure. Instead of one agency with strong central budgetary control over the entire University, each of Harvard's schools is largely financially autonomous with its own procedures, concerns and administrators...
Proctor said temperament may be the most important factor in dealing with Harvard's management structure.
"I don't know if was the right choice, and in the end I suppose it is a matter of taste and temperament," he said. "I admire people greatly who do direct service. Maybe someday I'll go back to that. Both are valuable both are critical."
Does this mean the D4DR gene alone compels people to take up bungee jumping or air surfing? Emphatically not. Researchers suspect that another four or five dopamine-related genes also contribute. Moreover, behavior ultimately depends as much on upbringing and opportunity as it does on innate temperament. Someone with the...
Justice Holmes judged that Franklin Roosevelt had a "second-class intelligence but a first-class temperament." Newt Gingrich has a first-class intelligence that fires through a strangely refracted temperament that is not exactly second-class but agitated and sometimes grandiose enough to make Americans nervous. He has proved himself...