Word: implementation
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Yesterday's meeting was the first time the Faculty Council has discussed the core curriculum proposals. The Council also began debate over how best to implement the proposals if they are approved by the full Faculty...
...nation's role as the world's leading arms salesman." Last May, in issuing guidelines to change that role, he declared that the dollar volume of 1978 arms transfers would "be reduced from the fiscal year 1977 total" and that such sales would be "an exceptional foreign policy implement." The guidelines also stated that the U.S. would no longer be a "first supplier to introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling for 1978 on all weapons transfers to nonallied countries. But the effect of the measure...
...moment at least, French politics have reached a stalemate. The left cannot cooperate in order to implement its reforms; the right is in danger of losing control of the government if public economic woes bring the left to power. Both sides are worried about the future and uncertain whether they will be able to win at the polls in March. At present, it seems unlikely that the left will come to even loose agreements on policy before the elections. Mitterand extended an olive branch to Marchais last week when he stressed that his party and the Communists did agree...
...budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power of giving tickets...
...brain that governs this capacity governs the degree of eye roll." Spiegel has also found that eye roll is connected to personality. The low scorers ("zeros" and "ones") tend to stress thinking over feeling and are wary, critical folk who love to control people and implement plans. The highly hypnotizable "fours" and "fives" generally feel rather than think. Though they can be very creative, they uncritically accept ideas, trends and leaders, and are strikingly childlike and gullible-in short, wide-eyed...