Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intricacies. That provides Boren with a target that seems almost too good to be true. NATAPROBU's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board knows bureaucracy well: he struggled for seven years as a middle-level official in the Agency for International Development (AID) a renowned citadel of red tape, and served previously in the U.S. Army (as captain) and the Congress (as an aide to Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough). Now head of a private business and educational consulting firm in Virginia, he funds NATAPROBU's $3,000-a-year budget from his own pocket. "Some...
MOST outsiders would assume that Wall Street, the citadel of American capitalism, is a model of efficiency and sound management. It is nothing of the sort. In fact, Wall Street is an avenue filled with managerial cracks and potholes. Nothing has so plainly revealed its weaknesses as the recent steep decline in stocks, which has cut almost $200 billion from the value of shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange alone. Simultaneously with this decline, and largely as a result of it, the U.S. securities system is undergoing a series of fundamental changes that are bound to affect...
Surrounding the outwardly calm White House Oval Office that is the President's citadel is a symbolic battleground pocked with shell holes and scarred with trenches. The tactical objective of the attackers is the President's attention. The besiegers include great institutions and the meekest citizen. There are the representatives of the Federal Government itself: the Cabinet en bloc and as individuals, Senators and Congressmen, military chiefs, economic advisers, satraps of the independent and quasi-independent agencies...
...more than 20 years, Trombe has championed solar furnaces as an ideal source of intensive heat for both industrial uses and scientific experimentation. In 1946 he fashioned his first sun stove out of a captured German antiaircraft searchlight mirror at an observatory near Paris. Moving to the old Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with...
...Membership signaled Agreement with a concerted Bray of Opprobium. The Mentor, whose Flarb had fallen closest to the Citadel, started the Debate. Half-a-beard suggested while Momus whispered...