Word: temperers
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...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...
Like Fidel, the man he most hates, Mas finds it hard to deal with such criticism. His temper is fiery: he once challenged a local politician to a duel for thwarting a real estate deal. Those who cross him are labeled communists or traitors; private eyes investigate their lives. Last week the foundation threatened to file a suit against public broadcasting stations that aired a documentary by the University of West Florida about the foundation's crusade to free Cuba. When the Miami Herald editorialized against the 32-year- old trade embargo against Cuba, Mas launched a citywide billboard campaign...
...degree, on the social issues around which the Republicans focused their convention -- the mainstream press mirrors the concerns of average Americans, according to many polls. If "bias" is defined as deviating from the statistical consensus, front-tier news organizations show bias mainly by lacking a sizable conservative minority to temper the prevailing view...