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...oversaw the research, wrote the report, and takes responsibility for its conclusions, though he consulted with the rest of the staff before reaching them. Woodworth was not pleased to get the job in the first place. He explained: "It bothered me a great deal. I didn't like the responsibility???I was aware of the implications. But I felt that the very basis of our voluntary tax system depended on it. I also knew that this report was bound to be reviewed by anyone with similar tax problems. Any deductions claimed here would be claimed by others...
...head of the herd obviously holds huge responsibility???to his company, its clients, the nation, and for that matter, the world. It was therefore all the more remarkable that Merrill Lynch almost routinely underwent a major leadership change just last month. Michael McCarthy, 63, who had been chairman since 1961, moved up to executive committee chairman. President George J. Leness, 63, became chairman. With only two years left before mandatory retirement, McCarthy and Leness are really beginning to phase themselves out; they plan to spend most of their time pondering about Goliath's long-range future...
...inferiority feelings, never formulated a full-blown theory of anxiety, but showed more insight than his Vienna rivals in seeing the uses that the neurotic makes of anxiety. If it blocks his activity, it permits him to retreat to a previous state of security, to evade decisions and responsibility???and. therefore, dangers. Also, as happens in many families, it can be forged into a weapon for dominating others, who would rather yield to unreasonable demands than be made to feel guilty...
...acceptance of the post of Commissioner General, messieurs?a post of much honor but of much responsibility??? I make conditional upon the completion of a satisfactory subway. It is better to open the Exposition in 1931 with sure chance of success than in 1929 with certainty of failure...
...proxies were assembled for what has become an annual meeting. State's Rights in public domain, in prison-made labor, in Prohibition enforcement were the themes. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, who always tries to have something new and notable to say, shifted the talk to Federal Responsibility???made a speech to the effect that the U. S. must some day soon provide unemployment insurance for its citizens...
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