One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.

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They were cautioned against alcohol, tobacco, and gum chewing, and were told that they should consider it a miracle of God if any decent man ever wanted to marry them.

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Spencer Hays is a very decent man, almost spiritual, says Jay Mazur, president of Unite, the big clothing workers union with about 3, 000 members working at Hays-owned companies.

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Once you've amassed a decent fortune, your focus shifts to keeping it from the hands of the tax man and from sharp declines in the market.

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For many Americans, only an explicit disavowal of his past support for such theories would signal that he is a decent man worth dealing with.

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None of these facts are cited in order to criticize Mr. Kenny, a palpably decent man doing a difficult job.

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The judge described him as "a decent man" but added that he suffered from "depression, stress and a serious lack of confidence".

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His poster boy for the terrible early period of the Iraq war is Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, whom he accurately portrays as a decent man but an incompetent commander.

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