Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter who was President because the country was spinning out of control. Carter decided to charge back into the national consciousness, said the aide, figuring that "a challenge like energy can be used to pull ourselves together"?both as an Administration and as a nation. The first step was taken Sunday night, when Carter acknowledged the problems and appealed for support. But Carter almost surely misjudged the next step...
...make middle-level decisions in Carter's stead. From the Cabinet and federal agencies, Jordan explains, policy suggestions will come to both Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Foreign Affairs Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. If either of these two fails to reach agreement with Cabinet members, Jordan will step in before the dispute reaches Carter. Says he: "I will not be the pre-eminent policy person ... I see my role as one of coordination, accountability and responsibility...
...found that at least 175 engines and pylons on the 138 three-engine DC-10s operated by U.S. airlines had been removed for maintenance. In 88 cases the one-step short cut had been used, by Continental Airlines as well as by American...
Tensions had been building between the two men almost from the moment that Hamilton stepped into Geneen's job as day-to-day operational boss of the company. Reluctant to relinquish power, Geneen in 1975 had been given a two-year exemption from the company's policy of mandatory retirement at 65, but when he finally did step down, ostensibly to confine himself to his more general policy-making duties as board chairman, he pestered the new chief with critical memos, maneuvered to circumvent Hamilton's corporate decision making and sometimes even insulted him to his face...
Other gardeners took the back-to-nature bent of Kent and Brown one step further. To fulfill the romantic fantasies of their patrons, they attempted to make nature look even more "natural" by use of simulated rock outcroppings, false ruins and crumbling bridges. They disguised gatehouses as Gothic chapels and tool sheds as moss-covered battlements. Lord Cobham, a disaffected official who left Robert Walpole's government in 1733, determined to make an allegorical statement in his garden and persuaded his architect to build a ruined Temple of Modern Virtue amidst his flower beds. During the mid-18th century...