Word: taciturn
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...Verbal Economizer There is a joke about the Vice President that his friends like to tell. "Dick Cheney is always at an undisclosed location," they say, "even when he's sitting right in front of you." For the taciturn Cheney, discretion has been the key to power and influence. He has made calculated silence his calling card. Whether in meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill or in sessions of President Bush's war council, Cheney, as a colleague in the White House puts it, "just sits there and listens with that crooked grin on his face. He almost never speaks...
...evidence is all around us. China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's reach that normally would spark loud complaints from Beijing about Japan's resurgent militarism. And in the U.N. Security Council, a China that says not no but nothing, signaling its quiet acquiescence even as France and Russia actively slow a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq...
There seems to be little politics to the way Parsons is organizing the company this time, in contrast to the postmerger division of labor between him and Pittman. Logan and Bewkes bring relevant experience and talents to the assignments that lie ahead of them. Logan, 58, the burly and taciturn Alabaman who has rebuilt Time Inc. (parent of TIME) into a publishing dynamo, will oversee the subscription-based businesses, including AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time Inc. Bewkes, 50, who has led HBO to critical acclaim and rising profits, will add to his portfolio the Warner Bros. and New Line...
...What the President thinks of her husband's activities remains, as so much with this taciturn lady, something of an enigma. After almost three decades of marriage, Megawati's friends say the relationship is strained and sometimes openly acrimonious, and that the President frets at her husband's excesses but often can do little to control them. That's because she needs Taufik as much or more than he needs her. "If it weren't for Taufik, Mega would not be President," says former minister Ramli. For Megawati, who inherited the name of her father, first President Sukarno...
...whether something is objectively wrong that requires an intervention--not always an easy call. Experts suggest watching for changes in behavior, especially sudden ones. Has a formerly sociable mom become taciturn and isolated? Does Dad suddenly find paying the bills stressful? Does he have trouble seeing when he drives at night? Have there been serious lapses of memory or judgment, a pot left unattended on the stove, a large check written to a con artist...