Word: stewarding
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...sacrifice was his misguided sense of obligation to atone with his life for the embarrassment he believed he had brought on the Navy, his institution, his anchor, his family. Mike Boorda, like most of the senior officers I have known in our military services, would have felt himself the steward of his service's honor and concluded that his sacrifice would uphold it. For a man to have placed a higher importance on upholding an unreachable standard of accountability than on his own survival expresses an ethic that, however misguided, ought to be respected...
...editor/reporter at the Chicago Tribune; Mark Jaffe, an environmental reporter, and Marjorie Valburn, a staff writer, both at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Laura King from the Associated Press Tokyo Bureau; Terri Lichstein, a producer at ABC News; Myra Ming, a senior news producer at KTTV in Los Angeles; Deborah Steward from the Associated Press Moscow Bureau; Robert Vare, an articles editor at The New Yorker; and Paige Wilson, a reporter at The Charlotte Observer
...MOST CONGRESSIONAL OFfices, there is someone like Ann Eppard: the fierce gatekeeper deciding who sees the Congressman and who doesn't, the lieutenant whose years of iron loyalty have been rewarded with his deepest trust, the steward of his fund raising. Rarely are these staff members known outside the lawmaker's narrow orbit. But when Eppard left Capitol Hill the day after the 1994 election to start her own lobbying firm, many of the nation's richest interests were clamoring to sign her up, showering her with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...
...Colin Powell. He remains an enormously attractive public figure, but his ideological opacity is no longer a political asset. The source of his political attraction is that he represents a kind of respectable Perotism, a national hero without fixed-without known!-ideological convictions who is out to heal and steward the country. But this above-it-all stance is out of place at a time when a genuine reform program is on the table and a genuine resistance has been mounted...
Others attending the rally, like Robert V.Travers, shop steward of Local 250 of ServiceEmployees International, were there to lendsupport to a union in the middle of a toughcontract renegotiation. "We're here to support ourbrothers and sisters in other unions. They'rehaving the same problems we are. I've been herefor 33 years and I've been fighting Harvard sinceI arrived. I'm still fighting them today...