But perhaps he is learning, at last, to be outgoing, even coarse.
Gates's successor at the Pentagon will be outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta.
This will be the first opportunity for the President to see the Secretary -- outgoing -- soon-to-be-outgoing Secretary of State since her accident.
He will be replacing the outgoing head of the British Council, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws.
Mr Venizelos said Greece would be represented by outgoing Finance Minister Giorgos Zanias at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday.
"Football fans face the same economic difficulties as everyone else and supporting their team can be a costly outgoing, " Doe said in a press release.
It may be that the outgoing administration's determination to advance the Islamist agenda via "Islamic Finance 101, " and what flows from it, may be the first, far-reaching policy decision inherited by the new president-elect.
As a result, an elaborate computer model had to be created on earth to predict the temperature of the receiver, so that outgoing signals could be transmitted at the right frequency.
They want to be able to make outgoing calls immediately when clicking a contact name.
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"There are sanctions that are in place for people that are buying oil and products from Iran - there would be repercussions, " outgoing US ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration warned earlier on Wednesday about Kenya's oil importation plans.
Perhaps they do not know that the new parliament will be more powerful than the outgoing one.
Next week he'll be out campaigning with popular outgoing Governor Jeb Bush.
Surely such outgoing qualities will be vital for an IMF chief in an age where the role of financial markets in world affairs is becoming ever more prominent.
Now that the outgoing leader seems to be holed up in Abidjan, would such an offer still stand?
Speaking afterwards, LaToya said her Big Brother experience had taught her to be "more open, more outgoing" with strangers.
While Adam's father Peter Lanza, a tax director and vice president for GE Energy Financial Services, was outgoing, Nancy could be "unsociable, " Mary Ann Lanza said.
In any event, there may be an interregnum (with the outgoing coalition still, just, in charge) until the election of a president, on January 20th, by members of parliament.
The effect of voter apathy on this year's poll will be compounded by the decision of outgoing President Frederick Chiluba to hold elections on 27 December, right in the middle of the rainy and Christmas seasons.
The best hope is that the next generation of leaders will be compromise candidates acceptable to both the outgoing presidents and to the opposition.
But he may struggle to convince rural voters, many of whom revere the outgoing president and who may be undercounted by the opinion polls.
His big fear is that Kashmiris will be left out of one of the outgoing government's most important bits of unfinished business the peace process with Pakistan.
Much of the output will be exported to Japan, and the outgoing U.S. energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, has said that the U.S. will need to increase its LNG imports tenfold in the next six years.
The outgoing president has reasons to be on good terms with the new one: his war on organised crime has left him with a price on his head and in need of protection when he leaves office.
The Council of Europe concluded that coverage of the campaign "appears to be strongly biased in favour of the outgoing president" and "independent media that express criticism of Kuchma are subjected to numerous pressures by the state authorities, " Ukraine's Intelnews agency reported.
It's the signature of Jack Lew, who is expected to be named by President Obama as the successor to outgoing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
The outgoing president, Mr Rafsanjani, may be a crucial ally.
The outgoing government left legislative and regulatory loopholes to be abused by unscrupulous officials, he says.
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