The CEO feared "he could be a loose cannon, " says Dr. Winum, who advises both.

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Make no mistake: There is no indication that LaPierre is a loose cannon or someone who does not mind his words.

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Mr Byrd has become something of a loose cannon in the Senate of late, but little could compare with his latest antics.

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He is at most a slightly loose cannon in a party whose instinct is to lash every moving object tightly to the deck.

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He was also seen as a loose cannon whose frequent barbs were no less dangerous because they were delivered in his trademark deliberate, slow staccato.

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He has also all too often been a loose cannon.

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Clare Short (International Development) will be relying on her popularity among voters and Labour members to cling on to her place, though some of Mr Blair's closest friends think she's a loose cannon.

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Suggesting he was a Washington insider, but one no-one could work with, that he'd taken money from the hated Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae government mortgage companies (as "a historian") and that he was a loose cannon.

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