Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...none of these matters were expected to cause serious trouble in the pre-Christmas talks. The mood around the conference table was cordial, even inviting some light bantering. Gromyko jokingly asked his counterpart: "Do you have your chief of staff with you?" The Russian was referring to Vance's wife Grace. The Secretary of State replied, smiling: "I have my chief of staff. She keeps me in line...
NANCY HAYS TEETERS, 48, four months ago became the first woman member of the Federal Reserve Board. She is a seasoned Washington hand. After graduate study in economics at Michigan State, she was an economist at the Fed, became a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy years and put in a stint at the Bureau of the Budget. She was a senior fellow at Brookings in the early '70s, and just before being tapped for the Fed was chief economist for the House Budget Committee...
...husband is a program analyst for the National Science Foundation), Slater decided to enter a field that would lead to Government work, and economics looked right. She finally earned a Ph.D. in economics after a twelve-year slog of night school at American University. In 1967 she joined the staff of the CEA, then moved to the Joint Economic Committee, where she became the senior economist. She calls herself a "pragmatic liberal...
...bustle of a wartime staff room. Poring over charts and maps, officials plot their strategy, barking orders into a battery of phones. On the seas and in the skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
...only vestige of the old years that remains is the atmosphere: the comfortable, genteel elegance that pervades the building. The wood paneling, carefully polished floors and gracious service of the staff remind elder members of a bygone era and appeal to the younger members as part of a Harvard they never knew. The club has changed over the years, but "conspicuous displays" remain out of order at the Harvard Club...