The gravel outside his barns was always perfectly raked, his buttoned-down shirts pressed to match.
With his earrings and dyed hair, Hirano is not the typical buttoned-down lawyer in waiting.
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Bursting from a buttoned-down nation, Branson brought a spirit of rebellious adventure to making money.
The bachelor Busch has asked friends if he should marry--to make himself appear more buttoned-down.
They are able to shed the buttoned-down professional persona and show the audience who they really are.
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The combative William could use a little mellowing, but maybe he has been good for the buttoned-down company.
Having to get material past buttoned-down Singapore bureaucrats helps develop highly sensitized social antennae that are invaluable for stage work.
Third is Mr. Met, part of the team's efforts to market a family-friendly image to contrast itself with the buttoned-down Yankees.
This reminds me of the buttoned-down businessman Scully firing the firebrand Jobs.
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Aniston plays Sue, a buttoned-down travelling saleswoman (she deals in decorative art), whose obsessions over charitable causes help spare her any emotional self-involvement.
The move was the first step in the Chicago native's evolution from buttoned-down banker to proprietor of a modern art gallery bearing his name.
But momentum for its buttoned-down casual look peaked in the late 1990s, and Gap has lost market share to tough new rivals like Abercrombie ( ANF), J.
Its buttoned-down British roots may be right for these times.
In his buttoned-down shirt and tie, with a tense look on his face, he sits in a line of musicians, all looking joyful, all dressed in traditional African clothes or T-shirts and jeans.
He then issued a simple edict: Each unit had to create "demonstrably superior products" that could achieve "above-market growth rates" "This is not a strategy story, " says the buttoned-down Davis in his London office.
If nothing else, Pachter's take (and he still thinks Facebook is a solid investment) reinforces the inevitable culture clash that occurs when a 27-year-old titan of California's freewheeling startup culture meets the buttoned-down world of Wall Street.
The West may be "kicking butt, " as Forbes ASAP put it last summer (click here to read that article), but the folks west of the Mississippi still have a long way to go before they catch up with their buttoned-down brethren on the East Coast.
"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).
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His fashion styles -- wearing a watch over the cuff of his shirts and button-down collars never buttoned -- became trends and the paparazzi would trail him from the French Riviera to Swiss ski resorts.
As a National League expansion franchise whose original core audience was comprised of recently abandoned fans of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mets set out to distinguish themselves as a fun, family-oriented alternative to the corporate, buttoned down Yankees.
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