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...most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and what quite a few of them in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not--or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague--want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to best anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander, or client. Dashiell Hammett...
Like Meese, Deaver is no deep thinker, but he is a levelheaded staff man with a reputation as an effective problem solver...
...Washington house of representatives in 1970 and to the state senate in 1974. During the gubernatorial primary campaign, he presented himself, in contrast to Ray, as moderate in both thought and personality. Said he: "I'm a thoughtful listener before I leap. I'm a problem solver at heart. That's what a psychiatrist is by profession. So if someone wants to put a gun to his head, a psychiatrist tries to help find some other solution to the problem...
...Four regional directors will split up Kraft's responsibilities, but they lack his close personal ties to almost everyone in the campaign, from the President to the field staff. Said a staffer: "We will miss Tim's day-to-day leadership. He was our problem solver...
Carter was also eager to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship, which he felt had preoccupied postwar American diplomacy. His advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around...