Word: leadership
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After four years in the trade job, Blumenthal in 1967 became president of Bendix Corp., the Detroit-area conglomerate (auto parts to mobile homes). He rose to become chairman, and under his leadership Bendix was known in business circles as one of the best-managed companies in the country. Beyond increasing sales and profits, Blumenthal argued forcefully, business also has a social role. Long before it became fashionable, he conducted an outspoken campaign for corporations to adopt a code of ethics, urging others to emulate Bendix's openly professed policy of refusing to make payoffs to win orders...
Alarmed by broadcast stories about the manifesto on West German TV, which is watched by 80% of East Germans, Honecker called a Politburo meeting to deal with the crisis. The party leadership closed Der Spiegel's East Berlin bureau, the first such Communist action since East and West Germany agreed to exchange journalists in 1972. A wide-scale press campaign in the East tried to discredit the manifesto as a "malicious concoction" of West German intelligence. Initially some Communist-propaganda experts in Bonn had suspected the document's authenticity. Now, however, there is agreement that the manifesto...
...open break. Dismissing the manifesto as a mere "atmospheric disturbance," the East German official envoy in Bonn, Michael Kohl, declared that the Communists "retain their interest in a continued improvement of relations." Last week West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated soothingly that he felt the East German leadership "intends to continue the process of relaxation of tensions." In fact, there are good reasons for both sides to pursue Ostpolitik, Germany's form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves $1.2 billion in loans from Bonn and exports to West Germany that totalled $939 million...
That kind of leniency may now be changing. The NIE study, among others, calls for firm discipline and leadership by school principals. New York City announced recently that from now on teacher-assault cases will be prosecuted by the city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges...
...gave the Senate everything I have." A classic workaholic, Byrd rises at 6:30 every morning, then usually travels by chauffeur-driven limousine ? one of his perks of leadership ? from his modest suburban house in McLean, Va., to his office, where he is in business by 7:45. He then begins a breathless round of staff discussions, committee meetings, and appointments. The majority leader always eats lunch in his office, usually a bologna sandwich prepared by his wife Erma. Says he: "It saves time...