Word: planner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Lenin called the question of "who-whom." Who is to direct and dominate whom? Where is society's Solomon? Who is to decide that this year a nation should produce heart valves rather than vacation houses? The market system provides the most democratic answers. Rather than a government planner's dictating what a society should produce, consumers themselves decide what they buy. They vote in the marketplace. This is not invalidated by the fact that the votes?and the market?can sometimes be manipulated. Capitalist bosses, for all their power, have far less real sway over people than Communist...
...trend for the future, according to State Department Security Planner Lambert Heyniger, will be to design "smaller, less conspicuous buildings, possibly raised off the ground to make them that much more difficult for attackers to enter." Many new embassies have already traded aesthetics for security considerations. The new Swedish embassy in Cairo is a forbidding concrete structure with a single street entrance, narrow slits for windows, and a protected inner courtyard backing on the Nile?for quick escape by boat if necessary. More than anything, it is said to resemble Hitler's bunker. Finally, another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents...
...view of the world that is struggling to be born. "If détente is in limbo," asked one of the President's men last week, "what is going to take its place?" "We are forging a new method of response to the Soviets," suggested another key Carter planner. "Until now, responses have been mostly military. This will be much more political, cultural and economic...
...designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty birdcage of streaming light beams. Imagine if television had been there to catch the spectacle in color and beam it by satellite to a world...
During a thirteen-year period (1966-78). I spent a cumulative nine years in former French Africa as a planner and manager of many development projects, employed by both public and private organizations. In its relatively rigid economic approach to the problems of development, HIID has been, for the past few years, viewed by many of my colleagues and myself as unfortunately disappointing in its contribution to professional thinking while understanding and conceptions elsewhere expanded regarding what are the critical components of the development process--only some of which are economic...