Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McArthur has been praised by B-School professors and administrators as an innovator and consensus builder, eager to promote creativity among professors without forcing his own academic agenda...
...elected President to solve the world's problems in five months. Preoccupied with ethics violations, as the staff opinion acknowledges, the Congress is equally culpable for not answering every domestic policy concern. Rather than trying to find a quick scapegoat for our problems, we should attempt to build a consensus, working together with these higher goals in mind, praising each other during the successes and helping, not criticizing, during defeats...
Foley would bring a very different style of leadership to the job. Where Wright tended to stake out his positions, then bend others to his will, Foley is an instinctive consensus builder. With George Bush still pledging to cooperate more closely than Ronald Reagan did with Democrats on the Hill, Foley's is a style that may be suited to the times...
...first acts as President-elect was to announce that he would retain Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education. The move was widely applauded: in addition to being the highest-ranking Hispanic in the new Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...
...Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., a member of Wright's legal defense team who was involved in the talks, said he believed a consensus was emerging among ethics committee members that charges Wright improperly accepted gifts from a business executive friend with a direct interest in legislation were not well founded...