Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Foreman [Dec. 4], I am inaccurately quoted as charging that Ms. Foreman has "sold out" to the food industry. Whatever Ms. Foreman's failings may be in regulating that industry, they are attributable to inadequate leadership, not, definitely not, venality...
Management of the highest order will be needed to achieve the Four Modernizations. Of these, agriculture probably has the highest priority; it is also the most difficult. The Peking leadership has set a goal of producing 400 million tons of wheat, rice and other grains by 1985 and for achieving substantial agricultural mechanization by 1980. Both goals seem too ambitious. Though land in China is intensively cultivated and Chinese farmers are known for their innovation and diligence, yields lag far behind those of other countries. Peking has conferred with foreign farm experts, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, about...
...close to the throne would even mention such a possibility underscores just how serious the Shah's situation has become. There was one other small straw blowing in the ill wind: a Massachusetts book publisher last week received an order from a Tehran bookstore for one of its titles: Leadership and Change...
...Coup, Updike widens the horizons of this exploration. In effect, he puts on black face and tap dances with breathtaking agility and grace through the contradictions of culture clash and leadership in a revolutionary African nation. The mythic Islamic country of Kush resembles France's former real estate in West Africa, with a touch of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia...
Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. called it "an outrage." South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond said, "There is not a shred of authority for such an action." But Clarence Mitchell, chairman of The Leadership Council on Civil Rights called it "wonderful," and compared it to the Lord's work...