Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...three now returned to the Post for further observation of its people and its workings. The hassle over the first-draft script had worked a subtle change in the atmosphere; there was a new wariness in the relationship between the moviemakers and the newspapermen. Hoffman was particularly distressed. At one point he marched on Redford, crying, "Screw it. Let's fictionalize it. I just hate the attitudes around here. Everybody will know what paper we're really representing. What's the difference?" Redford, too, was unhappy. "The ambivalence of the Post drove me nuts," he recalls. He also feels that...
...Cabinet, he was pinned down in a crossfire. Hawks accused the Premier of being ready to give away too much to the Arabs. Doves chided him for ignoring the crucial Palestinian issue. Even some of Rabin's supporters were annoyed that he did not submit a draft of the proposal to the Cabinet for prior discussion...
...since we became concerned with single issues), which gave rise to popular disaffection (since our polarized opinions could not be accommodated by the government). The public has thus developed expectations which are impossible for the governing elites to satisfy. The solution, according to the author of the U.S. forced-draft urbanization program in Vietnam, entails a cutback on democratic decision-making in areas like universities where the "claims of expertise, seniority, experience and special talents" cancel out the "claims of democracy." Huntington also hopes that some measure of "apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups...
...bribery rests with the chief executives of companies that do business abroad. Says Najeeb E. Halaby, who as head until 1972 of Pan American World Airways resisted both bagmen for Richard Nixon and bribetakers overseas: "The top guy has to set the ethical standards." He is right. Companies may draft codes of ethical behavior forbidding bribery, as many are doing now, but those codes are unlikely to be observed unless the chief lets it be known that violators will be fired?starting with himself. In spreading that word, chief executives could be helped by legislation that enabled them to tell...