Word: temperers
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...kind of in the middle of it all, and she did it with good humor. She never lost her temper or her cool...
Back on the streets of Belfast, Adams turned his energies toward revitalizing Sinn Fein. "He is a political genius," says Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a fiery Republican activist in the 1970s. "He has great patience. I've seen him under pressure, and he never loses his temper. He encourages debate and slowly builds consensus so he can take the whole movement along...
...yields "a $7 investment" as crime and prison costs fall and economic productivity rises. Why then has he shifted away from what he knows he should do? "You can't appear soft on crime when crime hysteria is sweeping the country," explains an Administration official candidly. "Maybe the national temper will change, and maybe, if it does, we'll do it right later...
...Richardson remains a marvel; we feast on a face that reveals everything with the arch of an eyebrow or the sag of a cheek muscle. His calculated temper tantrums are as believable as the silky menace in his most understated lines ("I couldn't possibly comment"). This is TV's scariest, most alluring villain since J.R. Ewing...
...irony of our present situation is that moral laxness has always existed at the top levels of our government--the media has just kept quiet about it. Even though we compare the cynical temper of our country today to the optimism of the early 1960s, Camelot was more illusion than fact. Back then, our desire for moral authority was so strong that we were willing to shut our eyes to the truth, including the sexual exploits of John F. Kennedy '40 from Winthrop House to the White House. When Watergate shattered our notion that the government is morally impervious...