Word: temperedness
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Finlay Lewis, now the Washington bureau chief for the Minneapolis Tribune and a journalist who has covered Mondale for a decade, goes a long way toward unraveling the mystery of the Minnesota Fritz. In his unusually candid and balanced portrait, Mondale emerges as a man of unusually good political fortune...
Now suppose Mr. Bok is right in viewing HIID's work as technique tempered by scruple rather than as politics unjustified by democracy. In this case, the residual standard for appointment to HIID is still a bad idea, though the argument against it becomes more tentative. A large amount of...
The task that lies ahead, in an era ever more sensitive to public opinion, is to put the policymakers in touch not only with the true feelings of the electorate, but with the levels of intensity and conviction that those feelings represent. On the complex questions of national and international...
But as the Long March toward basketball supremacy (apologies to Louisville and the Soviet Olympic squad) draws to an end, with dunks sandwiched between slapshots and short hoppers, the teams play maddeningly efficient hoop, tempered only by the chaotic last two minutes.
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality...