Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berlin Wall," an insurmountable barrier to communication with the President guarded by the ferocious watchdog team of John Ehrlichmann and H.R. Haldeman, whom Mollenhoff characterized as "inexperienced meddlers pulling political levers." Mollenhoff's unsuccessful early attempts to gain access to the Oval Office foreshadowed his later inability to implement any real reforms within the executive branch. "I had an opportunity from the first to view the real problems: excessive secrecy and an extreme political motivation that dominated their thinking," Mollenhoff said. These obsessions and the Nixon team's unshakeable belief in executive privilege defeated the author before he began...
Gleason said White feels that Garrity has not given consideration to the mayor's jobs of running the city, and that Garrity has had too much faith in the competence of school department officials to implement his busing orders...
...have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese (implement used as a verb...
...policy of "interchangeability"-the practice of having deputies regularly fill in for their bosses-Cheney in the past year has spent almost as much time with the President at home and on the road as Rumsfeld has. Like Rumsfeld, Cheney will run Ford's White House staff and implement his decisions. But he is not expected to be a manipulator of policies and personalities as his old boss...
Ceiling Disliked. Farmers, grain dealers, farm-implement makers, railroads and shipping companies had all pushed hard for a long-term grain deal, knowing that without one the ban on further sales to the Soviets would not be lifted. But when the deal was announced many farmers angrily branded it unjustified Government interference in world grain markets. They objected to the requirement that the Soviets negotiate before buying more than 8 million tons a year, contending that the limit would prevent them from recouping sales lost during the moratorium...