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...example was the needless confusion over whether or not Reagan should retain Bill Brock as chairman of the Republican National Committee. First he wanted to keep him on; then some aides said Brock had to go; finally Reagan kept him after all. The campaign in the states is off to an ominously slow start because of a lack of direction at headquarters. Last week aides somehow failed to pass along an invitation to Reagan to address the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Miami. Reagan does not often appear before black groups and may not have wanted to go to Miami anyway...
...executive branch: 1) Cabinet seats proportional to their strength in the Assembly, or 2) a Cabinet controlled by the Protestant majority but counterbalanced by a special Council of the Assembly, endowed with veto powers, on which the largely Catholic minority parties would have a guaranteed 50% representation. Westminster would retain direct control over security, most taxation, defense and foreign policy; but all other political powers would reside in the government...
Even though the University has designed and constructed a variety of buildings during his tenure as chief of the planning office, Goyette said he believes the most important thing the University has done is "retain a sense of history and tradition" and a commitment to the conservation of old buildings...
...must retain our perspective of what we jointly want and what we have jointly achieved. Our alliance is a living organism: it has time and again proved its vitality through its ability to adapt to changed conditions. After Europe's economic recovery it will increasingly become a political factor as well. This means no weakening but a strengthening of the alliance owing to European unification...
...periodically urge managers and workers to be more efficient, little if anything ever seems to come from such pleas. In 1965 Premier Alexei Kosygin endorsed administrative changes that would have given state firms more authority to initiate plans on their own, enter into direct contracts with their customers, and retain a larger proportion of their profits for investment purposes. But the reforms were eventually watered down so much that they became meaningless. Economic reforms always run into problems because they ultimately involve forbidden political reforms...