Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy," says Roy Ash, former president of Litton Industries and new director of the Office of Management and Budget. Apparently Richard Nixon agrees. He has taken the advice of Ash and a council he headed that the Government should be reorganized to make it more responsive to presidential command. Though Congress failed to act on Nixon's larger plans-to merge six Cabinet departments into four-the President has gone right ahead and created a super-Cabinet by Executive order. The effort is receiving mixed reviews-as a laudable effort to streamline Government, or as a worrisome presidential grab...
...back his Executive Office staff from 4,216 to a little over 2,000-the number that existed when he took office. He will then have to deal with fewer people, as he prefers. When he gives an order, it will glide more swiftly down the chain of command...
...transpired with no audible percussions. Frank, 52, had let it be known for some time that he was tired of administrative work. Five years ago he had brought in ex-Newspaper Editor Richard C. Wald as a News vice president. Last June, when Frank made Wald his second in command, it seemed clear that Wald was being groomed to succeed his patron. With that change accomplished, Frank now plans to return to producing news documentaries...
...editor of the New York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...
...orderly, for example-has not declined. Henle gives two reasons: an influx over the past few years of postwar babies, who despite generally higher educational levels act as a drag on the lower end of the job market, and an increase in women and part-time workers, who often command relatively low pay. In other words, employers have found so many people available to be hired for relatively little money that they have not gone all-out to upgrade jobs and salaries...