But perhaps above all it fits with his post-Bin Laden projection as a hard-headed risk taker.
Applicants had to be proven seamen, hard-working and level-headed, with a spotless criminal record (Houston uses private investigators to check up on that).
Bridging the gap between creativity and hard-headed business strategy is a process that, when perfected, can yield results that both inspire emotions and bloat bank accounts.
It not only guarantees a wider audience, but also helps consolidate the hard-headed sponsors who want to see a return for their investment in the new venture.
Richard possessed a hard-headed, clear-eyed realism about how the world works.
"Our membership has arisen and has been maintained because of a hard-headed, calculated and pragmatic decision by successive governments, including successive leaders of the Conservative Party, " he said.
Mr. RANDY SCHEUNEMANN (McCain's Foreign Policy Adviser): Senator McCain does approach his any proposed use of American force not with some kind of ideological litmus test but with a hard-headed assessment of what are the interests at stake, what are the values threatened, what can any proposed use of military achieve.
With even the opposition in Britain urging a "hard-headed" approach to the EU's problems David Cameron has little room for manoeuvre.
Council leader Vivien Pengelly called it a "hard-headed commercial deal".
And they would help deal with the "28 or more different state services that come calling at the door" so that rather than a string of "disconnected" officials, they could get a "clear hard-headed recognition of how the family is going wrong".
Germany did not become a role model by being hard-headed.
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Or, in the case of Merritt, a self-conscious artist in the best sense, he knows that the accretion of detail over the course of these 13 songs has resulted in a realism that is vivid, hard-headed and never half-hearted.
He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.
Even when he eventually comes to terms with Bowerman's tactics and sets a new standard for himself, it's viewed as another hard-headed victory for Steve rather than the combined accomplishment of two very different men.
When I became a local radio reporter, I delivered my first voice piece to the hard-headed news editor.
Madura is a barren island, and the Madurese are known throughout Indonesia for being hard-headed survivors who are ready to fight for their living.
So far, it is still Mr McCain's plan, which explicitly aims to pay for the transition to a partly privatised retirement system and places more emphasis on debt reduction, that remains the more hard-headed on the Republican side.
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