Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page two you read what the anti-Humphrey forces plan to do at a general national level. Here, state by state, you can see how they are progressing and what the individual plans are. Compiled by ROBERT H. KRIM...
...RUNOFF PLAN would keep a deadlocked election out of the House by holding a runoff election between the top two candidates in order to determine their electoral vote. It, too, would maintain the chance of a minority President...
...pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...
That role, which the pound shares with the U.S. dollar, has long strained Britain's resources. Accordingly, the plan lifts some of the burden of maintaining a reserve currency from beleaguered Britain, shifting the cost to the multination Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as backed by the central banks of 13 industrial countries.* The London Times said approvingly: "Britain has placed the pound in the hands of the public receiver...
...administrative man than a creative whiz, streamlined the agency and made it more profitable. "My basic thing," he recalled last week before leaving, "was to build a modern management structure." This he accomplished by separating senior executives from day-to-day operations so that they could think and plan better. He also introduced computerized operations wherever possible, cut back on the clerical help they replaced and "traded up on quality people." J. Walter's motto, coined by Strouse, was: "Fewer, better people, better paid...