Word: steward
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...respect Nader’s right to run and agree that third-party candidacies strengthen our democracy by pressing the two major parties to take stronger positions on oft-neglected issues. But if Nader is running as a steward of democracy, we can’t help but question his stated reason for candidacy...
...stump, McCain delivered a set-piece speech that wove his promise to defeat "the transcendent challenge of our time - radical Islamic extremism," with chestnuts aimed at proving he would be an able and conservative steward of the economy. At one stop he led with a promise to "make President Bush's tax cuts permanent," an odd choice given that McCain famously infuriated conservatives by voting against Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. In his presidential campaign, McCain has said he supports making the cuts permanent because allowing them to sunset would have the effect of raising taxes, which...
...wire is something that connects. All The Wire's characters face the same forces in a bottom-line, low-margin society, whether they work for a city department, a corporation or a drug cartel. A pusher, a homicide cop, a teacher, a union steward: they're all, in the world of The Wire, middlemen getting squeezed for every drop of value by the systems they work for. "Every day, they matter less as individuals," says Simon...
...stressed the need for the next GSAS dean to think beyond the bounds of FAS and operate within the University as a whole.“One of the things that I really did as GSAS dean was to make it clear that the graduate school is the steward for the Ph.D. across the whole university,” said Skocpol, who has served as dean for two years. “I really liked Larry Summers’ ‘one university’ concept and I lived that and I think the next GSAS dean...
...might think this would make union leaders at Lego hopping mad. You'd be wrong. "We thought it was the best way to keep as many workers' places in Denmark as possible," maintenance man and union shop steward Poul Erik Pedersen tells me. "We aren't against the management. We want to make sure that they make money and we make money." Then, unprompted, he takes the argument a step further: "There are some good things about outsourcing. Where the jobs go, the standard of living is growing, and then they can afford to buy more Legos or other things...