Word: planner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the country, and, with few exceptions, Guatemala's junior officer corps closed ranks behind the insurgents. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and 105-mm howitzers appeared in the plaza before the ornate, colonnaded National Palace. As some 500 infantry troops encircled the area, the coup's chief planner, a boyish, clean-shaven captain named Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, set up his field headquarters in an arcade of shops on the far side of the square...
...principal enthusiast for civil defense is Thomas K. Jones, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for strategic theater nuclear forces. Jones, a former missile planner at Boeing, caused an uproar by telling a Los Angeles Times interviewer how Americans might survive a nuclear attack. Said he: "Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors, and then throw three feet of dirt on top. Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around...
...Graduate School of Public Administration working as a research assistant for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After taking his M. A. he returned to the New York Fed as a money market researcher, and soon developed a reputation as a brilliant thinker and long-term planner. In 1957 Volcker came to the attention of Chase Manhattan Bank's chief economist, John Wilson, who hired him away from the Fed, thereby starting the self-assured young banker on a 25-year shuttlecock career back and forth between Government service and the Chase...
When Reardon last year asked Oomen to look into possibilities at Briggs Cage, the ancient indoor track facility and baseball cage built in 1927, the planner emerged with the idea of creating in Briggs a unique basketball court with 2700 bleacher seats and an astroturf surface that can be easily rolled out to cover the entire floor, accommodating, baseball, lacrosse and other sports in inclement weather...
...athletic department's next priority for a facility, a new hockey rink, had been planned in the 1975 proposal. But when Coach Bill Cleary and planner realized that that $7 million project exceeded the available budget, they looked to the possibility of renovating Watson Rink, the existing facility. They found that builders could install new seating, resurface the rink, and rebuild the press box, while reinsulting the severely corroded walls for only about $2.8 million. The project was undertaken, and architects created what Reardon calls "a bright, exciting place to see a game. "It was the best facility...