Word: politicians
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Democratic Governor Bob Graham of Florida learned early on that a politician has to work like a dog to get-and stay-elected. The lesson seems to have paid off for Graham, a tireless campaigner who regards a 14-hour work day as the norm. A recent poll showed that 79% of Florida's citizens rate his performance in office good or excellent...
Kohl has had trouble shaking the label of provincial politician. He had never held a federal office until he was chosen to lead the Christian Democrats. Some political observers would argue that he has deliberately cultivated the homespun image and is actually a shrewd political infighter. Though he has been offered Cabinet posts in C.D.U. governments, he has tactfully one them all down, not wanting to become too identified with any one Chancellor. Despite frequent trips abroad, he is virtually unknown outside his own country. When Kohl visited Washington last October, West German journalists gleefully pointed out wire-service reports...
French ambitions go beyond national borders. In an effort to make Paris a world headquarters of the computer revolution, the government has established the grandly named Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines (World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development). Headed by Author-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the organization recently lured to Paris four of America's foremost computer scientists. With that kind of expertise and top government support, computers of the future are likely to have at least a slight French accent...
Bernardin's record is that of a highly successful ecclesiastical politician. He be came the country's youngest bishop in 1966 and general secretary of the hierarchy's national staff two years later. By 1974 he had an international reputation as an elected representative to an elite group that supervises bishops' synods in Rome. Serving with him was Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, who later became Pope John Paul...
...Authority begins on a quite different note: "The need for authority is basic. Children need authorities to guide and reassure them. Adults fulfill an essential part of themselves in being authorities; it is one way of expressing care for others." To demonstrate what authority is, Sennett portrays not a politician dominating a crowd but Conductor Pierre Monteux, whose "ease at being in control" was so complete that a raised eyebrow was enough to cue the French horns...