Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig know that Reagan, who abhors conflict among his subordinates, had pretty much decided to accept his resignation. Until the European trip, Reagan had regarded Haig's volcanic behavior with a kind of uneasy tolerance. But shortly after the presidential party returned to the U.S., Reagan agreed with key aides that the frictions had become insupportable. White House aides insist that there was no plot to get Haig; in fact, they thought that it would be best if the Secretary of State stayed on until after the November congressional elections. So Reagan would not directly ask Haig to quit...
...practice this has been a formula for continuing and unresolved conflict, especially between the contrasting State Department and Pentagon views of the world. It is also a formula for an endless series of discrete decisions that are poorly related to each other...
...keyed in style, and a master of conflict resolution
Shultz earned a doctorate in industrial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he joined the faculty there in 1948. Some of his early research was in the field of "conflict resolution," which centers on devising methods that will encourage quarreling parties to resolve disputes on their own. "He can see how different people approach problems from different angles," says Professor Chauncy Harris of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies. Shultz became a professor of industrial relations at Chicago in 1957, and five years later was made dean of the business school...
Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...