Word: consultancy
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...Supreme Court, a visit with Jimmy Carter at the White House-rather than substantive policymaking. The ceremony had a serious purpose: Reagan was out to establish an image of his Administration as one that, for all its insistence on changing the nation's political direction, will consult civilly with both allies and adversaries...
NCPAC utilized the capital from the solicitations primarily to buy television time for political advertisements. According to a 1974 Court of Appeals ruling, independent groups may pay for communication advertisements for candidates, as long as the groups do not consult the candidates concerned. According to the National Journal of September 13, NCPAC chairman John T. Dolan wanted to support Reagan most aggressively in states where Carter seemed strongest, and therefore launched an advertising campaign critical of Carter's failures to realize promises made in 1976. Some of the commercials made harsher attacks than others, and CBS reportedly cited one particular...
Some say we are entering a period of collective leadership in the West - that because the United States has lagged in economic growth and lost its military supremacy, we are going to have to consult our more prosperous allies and defer to them in the search for a Western consensus. This is nonsense. Consult, of course. But unless the United States leads, nobody will. And unless the President leads, nobody will...
...sound advice. But each department is a separate fiefdom; if there is to be coherence and direction to the Administration's policies, the President has to impose that direction from the top, cutting across the often conflicting interests of the various departments. The President must, of course, consult his Cabinet members, just as he consults the leaders of Congress. But on the larger questions only he can decide; only he can lead...
...CREATION of architecturally significant designs goes beyond logical construction and beyond self-conscious intellectualized aesthetics. One must consult one's intuition to understand "the essential distinction between architecture and mere building," Cobb says. His emphasis on architecture as investigation and exploration perhaps best explains why he came to Harvard. His final message is that there is no prescriptive guide to understanding--or discovering--architecture. "You learn architecture by doing it. The process is long, arduous, difficult, and expensive--and absolutely indispensable...