Word: intendancy
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...plans to take a two-year leave of absence from Harvard, and does not intend to give up his tenure...
...President Ford, Carter's touch was uncertain, his demeanor occasionally strident, and his 33-point lead in the polls melted to nothing. Fighting courageously, Ford came close to pulling a Trumanesque upset. But all along, Carter had said calmly, "I do not intend to lose." In the end, of course, he won by 51% to 48%; his plurality of 1,681,417 in the popular vote was far greater than the winning margins of John Kennedy in 1960 and Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Party was Carter's, as well as the White House. Because of his impressive rise...
...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...