Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English major at Harvard ('40) and avid golfer (he shoots in the low 90s), Regan learned his hard-driving management style as a Marine lieutenant colonel during combat in the Pacific. Says Regan, whose Irish temper flares quickly at subordinates who do not meet his expectations: "I don't like laziness or sloppiness or slovenliness." After World War II, he joined Merrill Lynch, became its president in 1968 and chairman in 1971. Under his leadership, the firm, already biggest in the U.S. securities industry, became a financial supermarket with thriving new lines of business in insurance, real estate...
...paper, fine, but what will make the system work-if it does-is the close relationship between Meese and Baker. Neither man is overbearing or consumed with ambition. No matter how much pressure he is under, Meese never appears harried. No one can ever remember his losing his temper. With his cherubic countenance, Meese might have stepped out of one of those 1960s situation comedies on TV featuring a benevolent daddy figure. He has a calming but somehow commanding voice. He rarely asserts his own views, but waits for a consensus among Reagan's advisers and then presents...
More broadly, executives hope that the incoming Administration can temper the antibusiness hostility that they believe has prevailed in Washington for much of the 1970s and complicated efforts to deal with the nation's economic malaise. The Reagan White House, says Charles Bliss, chief executive officer of Chicago's Harris Bank, has an opportunity to "set the tone for the beginning of the decade toward solving our problems of inflation, slipping productivity and declining standard of living. We will have a whole new appraisal of the role of Government...
...cussedness is legendary. It will kick its master when it is annoyed, and spit cud at curious bystanders. Despite its vile temper, the camel is prized for its ability to withstand searing desert temperatures with a bagful of survival tricks. Among them are its unusual abilities to retain water in the bloodstream (with the help of high concentrations of a special kind of albumin), sweat so little that its skin almost always feels dry, and keep out heat with a coat of thick...
...approved for economic and not aesthetic reasons. "It served the vital economic interests of the community that this company should stay in Boston," he states, adding that he "adopted a strategy of minimalism because the situation demanded it. We excluded everything that didn't contribute, in an effort to temper the inherent arrogance of such a building...