[ noun ] a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations <noun.cognition>
Mitterrand also said at a news conference at the Elysee Palace that the world had entered a "war mindset" toward Iraq that will be difficult to shed.
The regulation, announced by Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, is disturbing because it shows "a mindset that Washington knows best," Krebs said.
Media consultants say ART and MBC are spending at least Dollars 200m each on their projects. Mr Ibn Abdallah has loftier ambitions, a more liberal mindset and a fatter wallet.
All those factors combined to create a mindset: The wisest course was also the most politically popular course.
But these days scapegoats are expected and demanded. What the report does correctly highlight is a mindset in the CIA inherited from the past, which is much less relevant to the post-cold war world.
"Here you had a bunch of people believing that the inbound was hostile and thought to be a threat," the official said. "So here you've got a mindset.
This mindset is drummed into analysts the minute they set foot in Langley, though.
Gorbachev and others of his mindset laid low for decades, and there is little in his biography hinting at the type of reformer he has become.
"The mindset out there is that it'll be just like putting up a bunch of McDonald's in Cleveland," he says.
Instead, it has to be a mindset that they need to able to do and produce more.
Yet the authors of the proposals for European Community development aired in Rome seem to have overlooked all this. Their mindset remains determinedly centralist.
John Kerry of Massachusetts asked about "the mindset," but he voted against letting Mr. Bush use force.