Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein asking why his is "the only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen coverage of fashion, business, television and sports?especially horse racing. He intends to weed out the paper's overgrown garden of columnists, perhaps adding another conservative. "We're aiming for a fairly sophisticated afternoon paper," he says. "It's very middle class now, and we don't intend to change that...
...plans to take a two-year leave of absence from Harvard, and does not intend to give up his tenure...
...sound manager, Carter plans to restore the powers of the Cabinet Secretaries, so badly eroded by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In addition to regular Cabinet meetings, Carter intends to have smaller groups of Secretaries confer on issues that cut across departmental lines, such as urban development. "I'll use the Cabinet very aggressively," he says. "I don't intend to run the departments from the White House. I'm going to have a relatively small staff, and I'll trust my Cabinet members to manage their own departments." Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, explains that Carter's organization chart...
...That's certainly a possibility. In different departments, perhaps many departments, you can freeze the hiring. I don't intend to fire anyone because of reorganization. I don't think that's fair to the civil service employees. But I would reserve the right not to fill all vacancies as they occur, to reduce the total number of employees in certain areas of Government and to transfer people to more productive jobs with no loss in pay or seniority...
That thin margin in the lower house will not allow Fukuda a luxury enjoyed by his predecessors: governing while ignoring the opposition. At a press conference last week, Fukuda stated: "I intend to work up a full dialogue with the opposition parties." University of Tokyo Political Scientist Shinkichi Eto only half jokingly muses that if "I were Fukuda, I'd be taking the opposition leaders to some nice quiet geisha house in Akasaka...