Many national governments think not indeed, they chose Mr Santer for his unaggressive temperament.

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As a business manager, I asked myself how people so unaggressive in personal situations could possibly be successful in sales (turns out they were not, and Citi later closed the office).

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For a moralist, he is remarkably unaggressive.

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