At 35, an age when many people shift into the buttoned-down phase of their lives, Tom Freston hooked up with a cable-TV outfit that aired short films of rock groups in performance .
By last summer, many of those in the knowthe spooks, the buttoned-down bureaucrats, the law-enforcement professionals in a dozen countrieswere almost frantic with worry that .
Japan's youth are out for thrills, stepping clear of the buttoned-down, uniformed life of their parents and onto society's dance floor.
Snowden an eccentric, but hardly stood out at NSA The ex-contractor who exposed NSA surveillance programs was a self-taught tech whiz who mysteriously ascended to a coveted job with the agency. But his background check found no red flags. WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is the size of a small town, with more than 30,000 employees and as much variety. There are blue-haired iconoclasts who work in their socks, buttoned-down military ...
June 22, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Dan Bartlett in International Herald Tribune I'll never forget going to work on a Saturday morning, getting called down to the Oval Office because there was something he was mad about,said Dan Bartlett, who was counselor to Bush. "I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had...
Ron Guenther in Columbus Dispatch Jim is a regular Joe in a lot of ways,Illinois athletic director Ron Guenther said. "Jim is not this buttoned-down corporate guy who's always on edge, always on stage. He's just not that kind of guy. He does it only when it's necessary and...
Kenneth Duberstein in Glens Falls Post-Star He knows how to dot the i's and cross the t's,Duberstein said of the Democrat from Maine, who also is a former federal prosecutor. "He's absolutely methodical. He builds facts one upon the next. Mitchell is so buttoned-down that he seldom...