The European foreign policy chief's inclination to continue talking, meanwhile, has frustrated the Bush administration.
The decision, issued on the last day of the term, reflected what appears to be a key characteristic of the court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — an inclination toward nominally incremental rulings with vast potential for great change.
But on television on Thursday night, Yasuo Fukuda, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, showed no such inclination.
DAVID CAMERON is by inclination a chairman rather than a chief executive.
Interestingly, findings revealed that the contribution of sensitivity is larger than would have been predicted, and that it is sensitivity, rather than inclination, that appears to be the chief bottleneck in effective intellectual performance.
He said this was his view despite the opposition of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, as well as his own inclinations.
Stanley A. Twardy Jr., a Republican who was chief of staff under Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., said his inclination was also to clean house.
These days, by necessity or inclination or both, many museum directors mimic corporate chief executives, palling around with trustees, spending time with spreadsheets instead of artists and curators.
"The Fed's inclination is on the easier side," asserted Raymond W. Stone, chief financial economist at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, suggesting that recent data indicating sluggish growth has probably "disappointed" the central bank.
While Mr. Cayne is revered, if not at times feared, within the firm, Mr. Spector's distant manner and his inclination to act in the style of a chief executive would grate on top executives there.
Philip J. Purcell, the former McKinsey consultant who has been the merged firm's only chairman and chief executive, has steadily consolidated his power and never shown an inclination to cede any to Mr. Mack.
