He responded: "Why?" It is, paradoxically, Gordon Brown who has made a major contribution to enhancing the reputation of the chancellor he wanted to sack.
Mr. Cheney's restrained style, meanwhile, reinforces what many consider to be his strongest contribution to Mr. Bush: his reputation as a senior statesman with the depth of experience to offset Mr. Bush's relative lack of exposure to military issues, foreign affairs and the ways of Congress.
We looked not just at an individual's audience appeal but at their reputation among colleagues and contribution to the site's reputation.
Thus did forecasting make a wry contribution to Mr. Volcker's reputation as the father of America's mild inflation rates over the last 19 years.
She was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list 2013 for her contribution to securing the RAF's reputation as an inclusive employer.
So if Moody's doesn't think the executives who ran the company were responsible for its collapse in reputation and contribution to the multitrillion-dollar financial crisis, who do they think is to blame?
A bizarre contribution to the debate over his reputation came from the former editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, who suggested that Keynes' obsession with the short-term was motivated not by humanitarian, welfarist considerations but by the fact that as a homosexual he could have no real appreciation of the passing of values (or indeed wealth) from generation to generation.
The early buildings of Aarhus University, especially the main building completed in 1932, designed by Kay Fisker, Povl Stegmann and by C.F. Møller have gained an international reputation for their contribution to functionalist architecture.
Although he worked in a great many genres - he can lay claim to the invention of the two major strands of detective story, puzzle and psycho-drama, was a major figure in the proto-history of science fiction and essayed early efforts in that still controversial area where fiction, hoax and journalism combine - Poe's cinematic reputation rests on his contribution to the horror film.
But the army is split along party lines and anxious not to sully its reputation (it makes a lucrative contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operations).
They include a user's social graph — based on Twitter and Facebook activity; and a person's contributions to and general reputation on sites like Behance, Dribbble, Forrst and Github.
