Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nationwide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate positively its traditional role of national leadership." Dept. of the Army, Memorandum...
...Under the recent leadership of Secretary Orville L. Freeman, the Department of Agriculture--which is the main source of food for the poor--has been returning $500 million allocated for food to the Treasury," Mayer said, adding however that "ten million Americans are malnourished and are getting less food than they did six years...
...century. However, as former Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing last week put it, "The results of the elections did not show an expression of confidence but a need for confidence." De Gaulle, now 78, has of late seemed to lose his ability to provide the forceful leadership France requires. "In the country of Louis XIV, to be governed means to have a father," wrote L'Express, adding, "France has discovered that it has only a grandfather...
Despite the dissatisfaction among students and workers, there actually is little likelihood of any new outbreak of disorders on the scale of those in May and June. For one thing, the students lack leadership. Daniel ("Danny the Red") Cohn-Bendit, their principal leader last spring, has been banished from France, and no one has taken his place. The students are now badly splintered into rival groups. When 1,000 militant students met last week in Marseille to form a common front against De Gaulle, they squabbled so badly that they could agree only on one motion-to adjourn. For their...
...five years since he took control of the country, the King has concentrated on electrification and education, carrying forward many of his father's ideas. Under their leadership, the literacy rate has risen from 25% to 40%, and the number of Sikkimese children in school has quadrupled in the past decade. Government revenues have doubled, road mileage has tripled, and average per-capita income has risen by a third, to $100 a year. This fall, however, monsoon rains set off heavy floods and landslides, causing $28 million in damage-14 times the kingdom's annual budget...