Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love is the TV tube. He dropped out of Columbia's graduate psychology department 20 years ago to produce local TV sports programs in New York City. A liberal Democrat who grew up on Republican Long Island, he got into politics in 1960 as an organizer of the Draft Stevenson movement. After working as the unpaid television adviser in John Lindsay's successful 1965 mayoral campaign, he plunged full-time into political consulting...
...upcoming year, specifying which costs may rise, and which services the department plans to increase or cut back. Over Christmas, the provost reports on the committee's suggestions for tuition, room and board fees, staff and faculty salaries, and departmental expenditures. The committee reviews the provost's first draft in January and then presents it as a recommendation to the university's president, who in turn recommends a budget to the Princeton Corporation. Since the Priorities Committee began to recommend budgets to the president in the 1970-71 academic year, the final budget has always followed its advice...
...intangible that's not in the statistics. It's an underlying negative bias," explains the Celtics' first-round pick in the 1970 draft. "Upfront no one's thinking about losing, but in the back of his mind, he's wondering...
Lance's exit especially troubles businessmen because they feel Carter, whatever his own sentiments, has filled the Administration's second-level posts with people who have no sympathy for them and favor more regulation. Oilmen are particularly suspicious of S. David Freeman, who helped Schlesinger draft the energy program; they regard him as a doctrinaire conservationist who does not even want to increase energy production. William P. Tavoulareas, president of Mobil Oil Corp., adds that "everybody we see in the Interior Department these days is an environmentalist...
Carter has his defenders in the business community. John D. deButts, chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., calls the attention of his executive colleagues to the proposals favoring business in the draft tax-reform program. Sampson contends that businessmen are judging Carter too quickly. Says he: "It's almost as if he were being photographed every 15 minutes to see if he's aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter...