Word: solvers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit, McGovern would use government as a moral force to create equal rights, to give to the poor, to provide jobs for the jobless, food for the hungry, security for families that cannot compete, medical care for the old and the very young. He sees government as the problem solver. His view is fundamentally domestic, concentrated on the problems around him that he can see and hear and understand. The foreign scene tends to intrude only in cases like Viet Nam, which he feels is a moral outrage that has depleted the nation's resources...
There is no doubt that Bok's style varies drastically from that of his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28. His reputation is that of a crisis solver; in this respect, he has demonstrated an irritating, but apparently effective, knack for avoiding direct confrontation through postponement. Rather than meet an issue head-on, he defers to "a need for further discussion," discussions in which he ostensibly tries to assert the strength of his own convictions...
Sloan, 27, has taken on an anti-hero so refined he is practically a mathematical abstract. The author has broken down this problem solver into a human being by confronting him with problems the higher math cannot solve...
...jets and no domestic routes, may be left behind. Its archrival, TWA, turned around from a $63 million loss in 1970 to a profit last year. Seawell, formerly president of Rolls-Royce's U.S. subsidiary and senior vice president of American Airlines, is known as a good problem solver, a tough fighter and a highly ambitious man. Now Seawell faces his greatest challenge: to revitalize a great but seriously demoralized airline...
...says Kat Griebe, one of Twin Oaks' charter founders and, at 40, one of the oldest members. "Its powerful message is that of middle-class American values, which we reject?a high level of consumption, streamlined cosmetic standards of beauty, male dominance, the use of violence as a problem solver, and the underlying assumption that life should be a constant state of titillation and excitement. Life just isn't like that...