Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialists and men trained in the management of people, paper and budgets. In this respect, the report is a decade-later application of Robert McNamara's Whiz Kids techniques to the nation's oldest executive agency. In the past, the Foreign Service has prided itself on producing diplomat-generalists, but the complexity of foreign relations in recent years has shown the need for developing diplomats with more concentrated skills in technical areas...
Dedicated Masochists. TIME Correspondent William Mader, who has observed American diplomats in Washington and overseas, sums up: "In a sense, to be an American diplomat, one has to be a dedicated masochist. The department has more than its fair share of truly able, even brilliant people. But in far too many instances, recommendations of the best experts never reach the Secretary of State. What constantly amazes me is that so many genuinely talented people are still willing to struggle against these massive impediments...
...before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...sullen acceptance. "That's the Bok way of doing things," one second-year student shrugged during a curriculum reform discussion. "If you understand the Law School, you know that nothing changes very fast over there... but lots of things have changed [in the last two years]. Bok's a diplomat-wishy-washy on one level, effective on another...
...looks over the Harvard football roster for next year, it becomes increasingly apparent that the new Crimson coach- whoever the lucky man may be- will have to be more of a diplomat than a strategist...