Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter jest, Richard Conlon, staff director of the moderate-liberal House Democratic Study Group, sent out forms asking for an evaluation of the President's staff. Sample questions: How confident are you of the White House staffs judgment? How mature is the White House staff? Within a day, 160 forms were returned, filled out by House members and aides. According to Conlon, more than two-thirds of the returns listed Jordan as the least effective of Carter's aides. Said Conlon: "We did it as a spoof. The idea of a questionnaire is sophomoric...
...government, large numbers of Europeans even wondered whether the Carter Administration had fallen. As the week progressed, they became increasingly critical of the President. "He always acts too late and thus appears to be the victim rather than the master of events," summed up Les Edgar, a managing director of London's Sharps, Pixley & Co., bullion brokers...
...Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger and Chief Economist Charles Schultze. In addition, a number of Carter's appointees possessed impressive managerial credentials. Blumenthal had headed the Bendix Corp., one of the nation's best-run firms, while Bert Lance, Carter's first Budget Director, was a highly successful banker...
...reason for opposition? According to Robert Cameron, testing director of the College Board: "We do not have an inexhaustible supply of new questions." ETS spends two years preparing each version of its 145-question SAT; some 21 different versions of the SAT are used annually. As long as copies of the test are hidden away in the files of ETS, they can be reused for approximately three years. "But," notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout...
...Director Yates, whose best previous work has been in action films like Bullitt, here demonstrates a very nice light touch, as well as a gift for getting full documentary value out of his lo cation. There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They...