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Today, laws generally originate in the executive branch of state government. The governor is a planner; his job is to build a legislative program and guide it through the General Court. Aware of how little he can do in two years, he must start his second term electioneering right away. This makes great demands on his time and energy, especially in a state as closely contested as Massachusetts. The two-year term is a handicap to the voter as well. Too often election time finds most of the governor's program still incomplete, leaving the public without sufficient evidence...
Everest, writes Planner Hunt, rises above an icefall resembling "a gigantic cascade . . . Almost, you might expect to hear the roar of that immense volume of foaming water . . . plunging down with terrifying power. But it has been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last...
With White constantly at Morgenthau's elbow and ear, the Treasury Department became an important voice in wartime diplomacy, and it was a leading planner for major postwar policies. Morgenthau sat as chairman of an interdepartmental committee on postwar economic planning. White drafted the basic plan for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, set up at Bretton Woods in July 1944. It was in this connection that White's general views prevailed over those of Britain's Lord Keynes. In a meeting once, White sneeringly called Keynes "Your Royal Highness." Keynes was offended at what...
Citation: "France's leading economic planner; tireless and lifelong advocate of constructive relationships of honest men and honest governments . . . citizen whose vision transcends national boundaries in the interests of all free men and all free institutions...
...skills," says Harno, are only a part of the knowledge a modern lawyer needs, "The lawyer is no longer primarily an advocate . . . Only a relative few of the profession now devote themselves to court procedure and the trial of cases. The lawyer today is a counselor, draftsman, negotiator and planner ... an adviser to his client not only on legal matters but on related matters . . . Clearly, the lawyer now must be something of an economist. and the better economist he is, the better lawyer he is likely...