Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POPULAR DEMOCRATS, who came in second last time with 26%, advocate a mixed economy and decentralization of the Communist-dominated Intersindical labor organization. Says Leader Francisco Sá Carneiro, former Minister Without Portfolio: "We are a social democratic party, close in terms of programs and policies to the European social democratic parties in Sweden, West Germany and Holland...
Crosland's old portfolio went to one of Labor's rising stars, Peter Shore, 51, an economics expert who had previously served as Secretary of State for Trade. Also promoted was Labor's ranking woman M.P.: Shirley Williams, 45, who is Secretary for Prices and Consumer Protection, got the additional post of Paymaster General, which in effect makes her first deputy to Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey...
...reports advocated more administrative talent topside to carefully manage and control internal financial management and cultivate sources of income to the University. Bok changed the management of the University by creating four vice presidents. In addition the Harvard Management Corporation was set up to handle the University's investment portfolio and real estate, a move which has allowed the University to spend more time improving the value of its capital...
...candor is a characteristic of all political autobi ographies; Mrs. Meir's memory is no worse than the next leader's. What dis figures her book is an unbecoming - and unfamiliar - reticence, coupled with an artificial folksy tone. Her recollections too often sound like Molly Goldberg with portfolio, handing out 40,000 recipes for chicken soup on a U.S. visit or brewing 4 a.m. tea for herself and her bodyguards in the prime ministerial kitchen. More important, revelations that might have been expected have been dodged...
...Moslem lawyer from Tripoli, Karami locked himself in the Serail (Government House) during the peak of the most recent fighting and vowed he would not leave until the street battles ended. In effect, Karami became the government. He took over the direction of security affairs-he holds the Defense portfolio in addition to being Premier-and worked round the clock without the help of aides, pleading with leaders of the warring factions to stop the shooting. Shortly after the announcement of the ceasefire, TIME'S Beirut bureau chief Karsten Prager interviewed the weary but smiling Premier in his Serail...