Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control, so laying that much on him was easy," says one of the Blair House participants. "The question beforehand was how to tell him that some of the cost estimates and revenue projections in PPF were, to put it mildly, unrealistic. Clinton has a fierce temper -- you don't ever want to be on its receiving end -- and he was convinced the PPF numbers were airtight. So we rehearsed what to say and scripted around a bit in the hope of avoiding an outburst...
...experience when he says, "If you don't keep family in mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...
...president spoke more intensely yesterday than he has in more than a year of bi-weekly interviews with The Crimson. He stared at the reporters, and his voice had an edge that is usually absent. While the president did not lose his temper, he appeared extremely serious...
Persistence was joined to a stern self-control. Under constant fire, Clinton kept his cool. Throughout the seemingly endless campaign he lost his temper only occasionally, such as the time during the early primaries when Clinton received a false report that Jesse Jackson had endorsed his rival Tom Harkin and went ballistic into an open microphone. Most of the time, Clinton remained ever affable and was never distracted from hammering home, over and over again, the same message: The nation demands change, and I'm the candidate with a plan to produce it. Or, in the now famous wording...
...challenge to corporate law is important. Corporate lawyers must devise constraints needed to temper the excesses of rampant capitalism, a task of profound public service. Corporate lawyers, for example, perform most of the pro bono work in this country...