Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both a strength and a handicap. He moves with ease in the world where there are immutable laws of action and response, where figures line up and yield answers without argument, without any need for cajolery and bourbon. Much of his trouble in the mystical arena of political leadership arises when he tries to apply these bloodless principles to human power and pride...
Freeze Executive Pay. Federal Reserve Chief G. William Miller, who took a cut from $400,000 to $57,500 when he left the chairmanship of Textron, recommends that "top business executives demonstrate their leadership in the fight by holding down their own compensation." A one-year moratorium on raises by people earning, say, $100,000 or more would not make much economic difference, but it might be worth something symbolically...
...Chinese leadership appears "less unpredictable and more collective after Mao's death," Ross B. Terrill, associate professor of Government and author of several books on China, said last night during an informal talk at the Quincy House government table...
...would Nkomo and Mugabe agree to share power in Rhodesia under any circumstances? The black members of the new Executive Council suggested that there could be a "leadership role" in the new Rhodesian regime for Nkomo and Mugabe if they agreed to return to the country in peace. The chances for that seem remote, given the Patriotic Front's past denunciations of the internal settlement. But that agreement, Sithole maintains, is not subject to change. "We have generated new realities in this country," he says. "They have to be accepted as they...
Kennedy's city hall portraits and caricatures cannot be faulted. The author's implied conclusions- his four cheers for Daley's works- are far less persuasive. He accepts Daley's atavistic brand of leadership as not merely effective, but necessary. He does not pause to wonder whether having potholes filled quickly is worth dictatorship by a corrupt machine. He gives scant attention to the hallmark of successful tribalism: suppression of all weaker tribes. He seems not to recall that other cities from time to time, such as La Guardia's New York and Philadelphia during...