Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM WINPISINGER, Machinists Union president: I think the country is crazy for a leader. That's the problem with the little fink we've got for a President now. It is still possible to call [AFL-CIO boss] George Meany a leader, but I happen to think he epitomizes negative leadership, characterized by inaction, immobility and stultified thinking. To me, Ted Kennedy has the skills to be a leader. He's charming; his staff has brains. Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich took on the utility company and the interlocking directorates. He told them baloney...
Troy was also the master of the smoke-filled back room. Not only was he a New York City councilman, but he was Democratic leader of the huge borough of Queens (pop. 1.9 million). What toppled Troy was a matter of finances-the city...
...energy costs and opposes President Carter's decontrol of domestic oil prices, despite arguments from those who feel that Americans will waste gasoline until prices go up. "Government programs are still wanted," he says. "My job is to cut out the waste and the junk, and to be a leader of the programs that work well...
...Wallis, 31. "If there ever was a time when the radical nature of the Bible needs to be lived out courageously, it is now," says Wallis, a Protestant religious leader and the editor of an evangelical magazine. A Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Wallis was active in the civil rights and antiwar movements a decade ago. Then he turned to religion. After studying at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., Wallis founded Sojourners in 1975, a religious community now totaling 60 people who live together in a poor section of Washington, D.C. Sojourners...
...Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what...