Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discover that the Commerce portfolio gives her relatively little Cabinet clout. Reason: Treasury, State and other departments impinge heavily on Commerce territory in vital economic matters, from international trade to fiscal and monetary policy. She will have an opportunity to influence the Administration, however, as a member of the Economic Policy Board, which meets daily to advise the President...
Echeverria's Under Secretary for Natural Resources and as reform administrator of the chaotic Federal Electricity Commission before receiving the Finance Minister's portfolio in 1973. Though he took responsibility two years ago for pushing through Echeverria's modest tax increase on high incomes, López Portillo gained the respect of Mexican businessmen. Most of them, after six years of polemics with Echeverria, look forward to Don Pepe's presidency with relief...
...years ago, at a time when the Watergate scandal had reduced the Federal Government to near paralysis, TIME decided to explore the subject of leadership in depth. The result was a 38-page special section (July 15, 1974). Included was a portfolio of "200 Faces for the Future": young (45 or under) American leaders who, in the editors' view, had noteworthy civic or social impact on their communities, their institutions or the nation. When the special section appeared, Richard Nixon was still in the White House, Jimmy Carter was still in the statehouse in Atlanta and the corporate bribery...
...performance of the University's endowment is largely because of the recovery of the national stock market. Over the past two years the portfolio has increased by nearly 25 per cent, upping its value by almost $300,000 million...
...just beginning to dawn on me that we're in the big leagues now." Carter gives his people remarkable autonomy, leaving himself free to read, speak, think?and even pose for some photos by Andy Warhol. The Democratic National Committee will raise money by selling a limited-edition portfolio of the pictures...