Word: carterisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter won’t have a hard time making friends in Washington. Carter, who recently announced his appointment as the new director of weapons procurement at the Pentagon, will join a flock of Harvard affiliates who have already migrated to the capital. The role call boasts some of our biggest names—from Elena Kagan to Cass R. Sunstein ’75—and the total count comes to at least 10 Harvard professors along with numerous alumni...
...said his ideal political platform would include: a 17% flat tax; private social security; arctic drilling; revoking Jimmy Carter's passport...
...You’ve been involved in many different organizations across many different sectors of society—from McKinsey [& Company] to the Carter Administration. What’s has linked them...
Last week, President Obama nominated Ashton B. Carter, the Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, to become the new director of weapons procurement at the Pentagon. Carter, who has been an outspoken critic of wasteful and excessive defense spending, brings an already-impressive resume to the position, having served as assistant secretary of defense for international security during the Clinton administration. We applaud Obama’s wise selection and hope that Carter’s nomination signals a major change in the Defense Department’s procurement policy. The selection...
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Ashton B. Carter was named the U.S. military’s chief weapons buyer by President Barack Obama on Monday. Carter—who is co-director of the Preventive Defense Project—has been a vocal critic of the Pentagon for purchasing what he deems to be unnecessary weapons and has called for greater alignment between military strategy and spending. Carter was originally scheduled to teach the class “American National Security Policy” at the Kennedy School this spring, but he joins the growing list of Harvard professors who have...