Few were better at the brisk summing-up and the clear, no-nonsense decision.
The tapes show Dr. Dean as a no-nonsense decision maker grappling with the stuff of governing -- health care, education, attracting businesses to the state.
With a clenched jaw and rare smile, the Barcelona-born Mr Valls has carved out a reputation as a no-nonsense decision-maker.
Mr Galvin, the grandson of Motorola's founder, has strong emotional ties to the firm; Mr Zander, formerly the number two at Sun Microsystems, a computer-maker, is an outsider with a reputation for no-nonsense decision-making.
Mick Smith has amply demonstrated the nonsense that no decision has been made on a successor to Trident.
Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, deplored the Arab League announcement in comments made to Agence France-Presse, calling the decision nonsense.
Calling the decision "nonsense", Noé told French newspaper Libération that his main concern was that "directors or producers may start to be afraid.
TB: I know you are not but people were suggesting it, and once that original allegation was shown to be nonsense, that the decision was taken to someone else, then they move on to something else.
In October that year, he disparaged as "nonsense" the government's decision to ban imports to conserve foreign currency only to reverse its ruling in the face of opposition from the Aleppo business community.
The social security minister, Scott Morrison, said this week the decision was "absolute nonsense".
I took the decision, 'this is nonsense, we are not sheep in their herd,' I went down and joined the protests".
