Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Mediator Theodore Kheel: "Now everybody knows as much as their leaders. They aren't willing to believe in 'secret plans' for ending wars or solving problems." (Once again, the almost atavistic appeal of Ted Kennedy contradicts the trend. His followers are willing to trust Kennedy in an old-fashioned way, even though they might actually disagree with his programs, or be ignorant of them...
Lamm soon found out about the clout of the state highway commission, the citizens' associations, the building trades and local mayors looking for tax bases. What started as Lamm's crusading leadership shook down after almost two years into a political compromise: not an interstate, but a four-lane parkway, with limited interchanges. Compromise has become an increasing aspect of modern leadership...
...better?" Reflecting the continuing problem of leadership in the White House, no one named Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter. The great diversity of the people chosen mirrors the fragmentation of American society, one of the problems for leaders. The nominees ranged from relatively predictable to almost shocking...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, historian (Amherst College): Linus Pauling has provided leadership in an almost 18th century fashion by combining great distinction in scientific inquiry and in the moral arena. The second figure who has steadily, over a long and distinguished career, held up to our people a spectacle of greatness is Archibald MacLeish. He has inspired generations of Americans to a love of literature and of philosophy...
LOUIS MASOTTI, political scientist (Northwestern): Ralph Nader. Recalls, product guarantees, truth in packaging, truth in lending, almost all these things were a spillover of the challenge of this one person. Another is Barry Commoner. He has raised our consciousness about the environment and ecological system. I might have chosen Jerry Brown, if he had turned out to be more consistent and positive...