Word: shortsightedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ABOVE ALL, theirs is a grossly shortsighted view of the school's mission. Its highly econometric approach to public policy frequently precludes meaningful classroom discussion of ethical issues and fails to inculcate an appreciation for affirmative action policies. Its extremely quantitative admissions and curricula requirements dissuade many minorities and women...
At Watt's hearing, before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, environmentalists tried to strike sparks with bitter statements against the nominee, who as president of the Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation has battled to open up more public lands in the West for development. National Audubon Society...
By law, top pay for bureaucrats covered by Civil Service rules cannot exceed the salary for political appointees in Executive Level Five. Thus absurdities abound. The Joint Chiefs of Staff earn $50,112, precisely what the Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff make and, as it happens, the same as the...
The odds are against such hopes being realized. One reason is that the present leadership and the leadership system as a whole work against dynamism. A management team that cannot, or will not, transfer power to a younger generation of executives except by the attrition of mortality is by definition...
Others find such an approach shortsighted. They believe that the U.S. should help the Soviets to expand and exploit their fuel reserves. Says Theodore Shabad, a U.S. expert on Soviet natural resources: "It is not in our interests to create an energy problem for the Soviets; it is in our...