Word: temperment
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...nonpayment brothers." It was great demagoguery, but as it turned out, Kan himself had not paid into the system for 10 months in 1996. In fact, 113 members of the Diet (including seven Cabinet members) have been found so far to have been delinquent at some point. Hoping to temper the damage to the LDP with a single sacrificial lamb, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda turned in his resignation two weeks ago. Kan followed suit three days later. Late last week, Koizumi admitted that he, too, had missed a series of payments but had done so long before contributions became...
...equal temper of heroic hearts...
...average Iraqi citizen has no job and is left with nothing to do but wage war and rue the indignities of a foreign occupation? Wouldn't an economic strategy that puts most Iraqis to work defuse the escalating hostilities? Applying American brainpower instead of firepower might serve to temper the Iraqis' unfortunate propensity for self-destruction. CHRISTINE E. BRADY Chula Vista, Calif...
...Mary is still indignant when Dean is described as angry, and says he rarely saw the former Governor lose his temper. But up there on stage that night, Dean started listing states, emitted that bellow and launched the end of his campaign...
...advantage of this unusual opportunity for consultation. The problems they bring run the whole gamut of mental and emotional woes. Perhaps a boy has been "studying all the time," yet, because he worked inefficiently, has been doing poor work. Perhaps there have been sleepless nights that resulted in bad temper, indigestion and poor marks. Money troubles, obscure fears, estrangement between parents, tangled love affairs, black depressions, all of these and many more are laid before the psychiatrist in his capacity of consulting physician...