Hard to be so open and authentic, but it is both tough-minded and kind to do so.
And Mr Mann is a tough-minded fellow who has detailed plans for his institutes.
You have to seek out tough-minded, iconoclastic, critical points of view that bother to do some independent reporting.
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He personified America's notion of itself as both good-hearted and tough-minded, wised-up and amiable at the same time.
Kindness can still infuse winning, tough-minded, smart, highly competitive and driven organizations.
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Built by a brilliant and tough-minded New York corporate attorney, William J.
We can measure Benedetto da Maiano's preparatory terra-cotta bust of the tough-minded Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi against the finished marble version (both 1475).
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The notion that today's sports journalism can be anything other than aggressive and tough-minded is now as fictional as Manti Te'o's imaginary girlfriend.
Galvin's point man on the semiconductor turnaround is Hector Ruiz, group president, a tough-minded engineer who came up through the ranks in chips and paging.
Lang is equally affectionate and tough-minded about the audiences in China.
There was much conjecture on Friday that Jackson's tough-minded ruling could be the cudgel the parties need to get them back to the negotiating table.
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Though the images are often generic, the lead actors, whose tough-minded theatricality is second nature, convey the fear and the heartbreak behind the glossy artifice.
Mrs Clinton has also brought a tough-minded professionalism to her job.
We couldn't ask for a finer interpretation of black history's importance to the nation, and for a fairer or more tough-minded speech on race in America.
So once I set a tone of being a fairly tough-minded press secretary, the media's picture of me was never going to allow space for self-doubt.
Egypt, at the urging of the country's tough-minded investment minister, is at last enforcing company laws, some of which have been mouldering on the books for 25 years.
The prime minister saw in Mr Hutton a tough-minded technocrat who would get on top of the detail and stand up to the inevitable bullying from the Treasury.
The governments of Italy, Ireland and France are also tough-minded.
There are such high points as a voluptuous Gaston Lachaise nude, a tough-minded Cubist Max Weber, a raucous William Glackens, a lovely two-sided sheet of Thomas Sully watercolor sketches.
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What if Gretchen Morgenson, the tough-minded business editor who has been banging away at banks and regulators for the way they have handled foreclosures, picked up on the idea?
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Lithuania's minority government is proving tough-minded and competent.
"But in order to deliver that type of system we need a tough-minded and rigorous assessment of how our skills policies need to change, and in reality that is not, I'm afraid, what we've had today, " he said.
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And if that kind of pragmatic and tough-minded Machiavellian strategy was what it was going to take to keep my sweet, spirited, stubborn young daughter safe and sound then, in my mind, it was in her best interest.
They were tough-minded nonconformists. (At seventeen, Claire had burned her schoolbooks and left home on a motorcycle.) Their house on Magnetic Island burned to the ground, and rifle cartridges that Claire had kept for shooting snakes exploded like fireworks.
Published by Random House, " Eisenhower" draws from a variety of new material -- including Eisenhower's papers and diaries -- to tell the life story of a young Kansan who who grew to be a complex and tough-minded leader.
Someone in the Treasury will have to start thinking like a distressed-asset manager, since he or she will be managing the taxpayers' money to earn a profit and will have to make tough-minded decisions about which investments are likely to pay off and which aren't.
It is a mark of the success of the United States' tough-minded - and now, if belatedly, bipartisan - approach to counter-terrorism that our most pressing political issues today are the domestic challenges of debt, job creation, unsustainable entitlement spending, and the appropriate size of government.
It keeps rolling as the antihero, studio production chief Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), murders a screenwriter he thinks is threatening him, endures a police investigation, defends his corporate turf, and takes us through the process that can transform even a tough-minded flop into a potential smash hit.
" I have a hunch that he means the tough-minded Tati who made "Playtime" -- a difficult, seldom-seen experimental comedy that also starts with drum riffs on the soundtrack -- more than the gently whimsical Tati who puffed a pipe and toted a butterfly net in "Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
Many observers compare his situation with that of Argentina's President Carlos Menem, who appointed a tough, independent-minded economist, Domingo Cavallo, as finance minister.
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