Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People give to people," Boardman says. He says the respect Harvard's leadership engenders was "one of the most powerful forces Harvard had" in raising money during the campaign...
...Seven years later, however, Clinton has just roasted President Bush?s party as hostages to a "new isolationism," the Senate?s rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty having dealt a serious blow to the very global U.S. leadership that Bush had prized. It was a strange moment, which spoke volumes about the fate of U.S. foreign policy ? and the role in it of the presidency ? in the years since the Cold...
...Washington?s allies around the world looked on in horror as the Senate shot down the painstakingly negotiated centerpiece of four decades of international efforts to put an end to the live testing of nuclear weapons. Besides their immediate concern over Washington?s seeming abdication of its leadership role on nuclear nonproliferation, the international community was plainly shocked at the apparent unraveling of executive power in the U.S. After all, whom could you deal with in Washington if the legislature could so cavalierly slap down the President...
...makes us look bad with both allies and adversaries, weakening our position for dealing with all of them," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "It calls into question our credibility in negotiating treaties and other foreign policy initiatives, and raises doubts about whether the U.S. is capable of providing leadership." Following the CTBT defeat, the President came out swinging, telling the world that he was engaged in a titanic struggle with "isolationist" Republicans, and that he planned to prevail. That was unlikely to reassure Washington?s friends abroad; the fact that the Senate debacle occurred when partisan skirmishing created...
...Today/Gallup poll. For instance, in September, Donald Trump, who was then only rumored to be mulling a Reform party presidential run, was viewed unfavorably by 47 percent of Americans. This month, Trump ? perhaps the most credible of the crop of celebrity political newcomers due to his decades of business leadership ? saw his unfavorable ratings climb to 58 percent immediately after he announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Reform party members polled were over 50 percent more likely to choose controversial conservative Pat Buchanan over the coiffed casino king...