Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odds are that under Radice's stewardship, anything that speaks of sex or politics -- or, worst of all, both -- can go whistle. In fact, she has canceled two grants for projects at university art galleries that had already been approved by an 11-to-1 vote of the NEA's decidedly unradical advisory council. One, for $10,000, was for "Corporal Politics," a show proposed by the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, containing images of sexual organs. The cancellation, Radice claimed, was based solely on "artistic merit...
...Democrats are in a no less awkward position. They cannot openly root against a recovery, although a sharp upturn could dash the party's election hopes. Both Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown, therefore, must concentrate on attacking Bush's economic stewardship no matter how the recovery develops. "Clinton entered this race because the country has suffered for 11 years without an economic strategy that would make us richer over the long term," % says Bruce Reed, a deputy campaign manager for the Arkansas Governor...
CLCS, under the brilliant stewardship of the center's director, Professor of English Marjorie Garber, has demonstrated its commitment to cultural criticism. Herrick Wales CLCS Liaison
...leader proved so paradoxical to his friends or so confounding to his critics as did Menachem Begin in his stewardship of that office. He came to power in 1977 after a campaign in which he advocated continued Israeli rule of captured Arab territories. Abrasive and seemingly uncompromising, he talked incessantly of Israel's claim to Judea and Samaria, that part of Israel along the West Bank of the Jordan River that was taken from Jordan in 1967, a territory now inhabited by 1 million Palestinians...
...Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...