Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever given, he described his agency's unusual philosophy to TIME correspondent Elaine Dutka: "Some companies believe that internal competition helps the bottom line, but I'm not of that school. We try to take the paternal approach of the Japanese, who take care of their own, and temper that with Western creativity and ingenuity...
Morton Downey Jr. has turned foul temper into a TV style. Geraldo Rivera continues to test the bounds of tawdry sensationalism. Phil, Oprah and Sally Jessy race to outdo one another in pursuit of the odd, the aberrant and the kinky. But something even more bizarre and audacious is about to appear on the talk-show scene. Make way for . . . the nice guys...
...many other women try for leadership posts highlight the difficulties they face compared to their male counterparts. Women seeking leadership roles in campus organizations often emphasize the personal over the political, experience over vision. While men confidently boast that they know how to improve an organization, women tend to temper their campaigns, relying on their past devotion to the cause as proof of their leadership potential. But that is not enough, a confident agenda is often the only convincing basis for the selection of a leader...
...almost any conceivable answer. Dukakis could have vented anger at the premise of the question or passionately explained his own feelings of outrage when his father was badly mugged. Such a response would have been a perfect way to introduce his view that the legal system is designed to temper human impulses for hang-him-high vengeance. But even as his political dreams hung in the balance, Dukakis mustered all the emotion of a time-and- temperature recording. He managed to turn a question about his wife being brutalized and murdered into a discourse on the need for a hemispheric...
...Henri Namphy, ousted as President last month, had links to the dreaded Tontons Macoutes. But photos found after his overthrow have shocked even the most cynical Haitians. One shows Namphy with his arms around two Macoutes assassins killed by mobs during the coup. Namphy apparently also had a nasty temper; a Haitian businessman claims he vowed to murder two U.S. legislators if they showed up to observe last November's elections. (They never came.) No wonder no country has offered Namphy political asylum...