Word: interior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threat of resignation is about the only weapon that disgruntled top officials possess. The threat does not always work very well around the White House. James Rowe, who was Franklin Roosevelt's administrative assistant, recalls that F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, used to send in his resignation periodically. Ickes never expected it to be accepted, and Roosevelt understood that the threat was a kind of body language of power. He would bring Ickes to the White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which...
TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich happened to be at the embassy at the time of the raid and reported that the staff responded with relative calm. But the attacks have taken a toll: the vulnerable ambassador's office is no longer used, and staffers now hold meetings in an interior auditorium...
...short months the thick-skinned man who manages 550 million acres of public land has stunned environmentalists and lawmakers with the way he has decisively altered policymaking at Interior. Watt has accelerated the sale of oil and gas leases, moved to expedite the surface mining of coal, opened up wilderness areas to allow exploration of strategic minerals, halted the acquisition of more lands for national parks. He says he wants a bold, sensible program that will renew the country's growth. Says one of Watt's top aides, Stan Hulett: "Nobody could have survived making these proposals...
...show his impatience with poor performance. Wary colleagues sensed long ago not to swear in his presence. He neither smokes nor drinks-no coffee either. His unbending sense of propriety is so well known that, although Watt claims he never uttered a word about it, rumors swept the Interior building that women workers should wear skirts, not slacks...
...stressed America's need to break its dependence on foreign resources, to search now for oil and minerals in order to prevent the inevitable panic rush on lands later if those resources were shut off. He insists that regulatory interference has blocked such development, that the Interior Department has been arrogant and offensive, a poor landlord. Watt has already cut way back on enforcement and investigative personnel, and conservationists are frankly worried. Says one: "Now the environmental reviews and other checks simply won't get done. That's how these developers will get past the regulation barricades...