Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grasp of the energy problem since the day he walked into the Oval Office. He rightly declared the moral equivalent of war early in his term to cope with the impending crisis. He got little help from any other segment of American society. And transferring his statistical conclusions into leadership in such a hostile environment has been and remains an immense problem. Having formulated the energy plan and declared it publicly, he turned to other things. Energy slipped down his list...
...case, the regime was taking no chances. Khomeini announced that the revolutionary militias, known as the Guardians, would henceforth constitute a special armed force responsible only to the Revolutionary Council. The militias are expected to be a deterrent against further attempts on the leadership of the revolution-either from the left or from remnants of SAVAK...
There comes a time when even a Vice President would just as soon not demonstrate leadership. As when Walter Mondale flew back to Minnesota for the funeral of a longtime political friend. After the church service, Mondale's car shot off toward the Twin Cities airport, where Air Force Two was waiting. Following such a leader, the cortege went where he did. At graveside, confused relatives wondered what had happened to the band of mourners that had filled the church. The misled cortege was finally halted four miles out of town by a sympathetic policeman, who turned the cars...
Benjamin said, however, the junior faculty favored the proposal as a way to "broaden tenured leadership" in the department...
...interest in cutting off the University, whatever concessions the Administration must make to disgruntled students and faculty in order to keep the place running smoothly. They know who the University really serves. They know that private universities and their funding mechanisms insure capitalist America the intellectual, technical and leadership resources it requires. As long as they get these things for their dollars the dollars will keep coming. William Swislow...