Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems, was a difficult man to love. Rarely showing any personal warmth, he treated his three children distantly, frequently annoyed guests by refusing to pay taxi fares, and once asked Black guest artist Roberta Flack is she "did floors." Yet, lifelong didactic and male chauvinist, he managed to command universal love and respect...
They are, in other words, a professional managerial caste that considers itself trained-and therefore destined-to take command of the nation's corporate life. This might prove a misfortune of some magnitude. For although the M.B.A.s generally see themselves as the best and the brightest, and the most energetic and ambitious as well, a growing number of corporate managers look on them as arrogant amateurs, trained only in figures and lacking experience in both the manufacture of goods and the handling of people. Worse, the flaws in the polished surface of the M.B.A. now appear to reflect flaws...
Training students to take command and turn an ever bigger profit fulfills a venerable tradition, but as President Bok declared in a report on the business school in 1979, the corporation has become more complex and difficult to manage in recent years. Its executives must learn to deal with fractious minorities, imperious bureaucrats, foreign coups, angry environmentalists, OPEC maneuvers and, most perplexing of all, an increasingly widespread sense of uncertainty about the corporation's role in the nation's life. Said Bok: "Most classroom discussions
...Carter administration agreed to sell the Saudis 62 F-15 fighters on the condition that external fuel tanks not be included as part of the package because of their potential threat to Israel. But the Saudis now say they need the fuel tanks along with five Airborne Warning and Command System (AWACS) aircraft, claiming that their security needs have changed since then. The Soviets are in Afganistan, and Iran, once America's arsenal in the Persian Gulf, is now unfriendly to both the United States and Saudi Arabia...
...make the increased defense outlays more palatable. He has only managed to find $3.2 billion of savings in the proposed $359 billion budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. Nor has he addressed the inefficiencies that result from lack of cooperation among the services, such as Army-Marine rivalry over command of the planned Rapid Deployment Force...