Word: temperments
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...working for Bill Clinton used to be his "purple rages"--violent bursts of room-shaking anger that could drain the blood from the face of even the most confident aide. Back then, Clinton's emotional engagement in his presidency could be measured by the intensity of his hair-trigger temper...
...Clinton's coffees with big-money donors. Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment. "He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much as he used to," says a senior White House official. "The undisciplined Bill Clinton of the past would be obsessed with this videotape business. Now he doesn't let things like that preoccupy...
TREATING TREMORS The benefits of surgery for Parkinson's may last for at least two years. The surgery, in which overactive brain cells are cauterized, helps control the trembling and stiffness brought on by the disease. It also helps temper the involuntary arm and leg movements triggered by the Parkinson's medication L-dopa...
...want to hop aboard, be warned that you will end up talking like this, from an anonymous testimonial that Covey reprints: "With habits 4, 5 and 6, my husband and I are seeking each other's exploration." Or this, from a dad whose daughter had a temper tantrum: "I consciously helped provide her with experiences where synergy really worked. And this enabled her to develop the courage and belief that if she pushed her own pause button and hung in there with us, it would pay off." The daughter is seven years...
...woke up nine hours later feeling terrific. The drug had worked immediately--no waiting period--and it continued to work night after night. What's more, my days were different. Brighter. Smoother. My famously spiky temper tapered off. Like a headache one doesn't know he has until it's gone away, my serotonin deficiency revealed itself only once a drug had filled...