Word: localize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal, state and local officials concerned with the project to a meeting in his Washington office. There they managed to break through a jurisdictional logjam that had stalled the project in the planning stage for eleven years...
Lamm soon found out about the clout of the state highway commission, the citizens' associations, the building trades and local mayors looking for tax bases. What started as Lamm's crusading leadership shook down after almost two years into a political compromise: not an interstate, but a four-lane parkway, with limited interchanges. Compromise has become an increasing aspect of modern leadership...
...TIME correspondents and editors began gathering suggestions from Congressmen, religious leaders, educators, politicians and prominent citizens in every part of the nation. TIME tried especially to find leaders on the local and regional levels. As North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt remarked: "I think we've got the attitude in this country that Government has to do everything for people. My whole approach is 'Let's try to do it for ourselves on the local level.' " The magazine sought figures of integrity who have exerted a significant social or civic impact, regardless of politics or ideology. Boston College President...
...movement more attractive for younger workers by encouraging greater initiative at local levels. Says Kroll: "We have to get away from the image of the baseball bat, T shirt and tattoo." He says he has "the greatest respect" for George Meany, 84, the autocratic AFL-CIO president, but that "maybe the leadership is not in touch with younger people...
...Administration's point man on urban distress, one of the toughest jobs in town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG, a mayor must prove that his proposal has local business support and will create jobs. In the past two years, HUD has paid out $700 million in seed money that in turn has generated an investment of $4.1 billion in private funds. An unflappable official, the Baltimore born and bred Embry plans to return to local government after HUD. Says...