Word: stewardship
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Schroeder recently returned to San Francisco after serving for twelve years as President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest health philanthropy organization. Under his stewardship, the Johnson Foundation rose to prominence as a leading expert on tobacco control and prevention programs for alcohol and illegal drugs...
...Epstein will hopefully be more successful, as it already has not only the coordinative backing of the University administration on the highest level, but also a well-renowned professor—Martin Nowak, a recognized leader in mathematical biology from Princeton—who has already been secured for stewardship of this project...
...converted. Earlier this month, the attempt by Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman to launch a bill to limit greenhouse gases met with stern disapproval from the White House--and little apparent interest from the public. Although Americans as a whole are uneasy about the President's environmental stewardship--a CBS News/New York Times poll taken in November said 46% of Republicans and 72% of Democrats thought that the Federal Government should do more to regulate environmental and safety practices in business--there is scant sign of public outrage on any single issue...
...would surely be a poorer university. Because so many of its alumni go on to the highest positions of American cultural and political leadership, Harvard has a strong moral obligation to instill the ideals of service in its students, giving them the experiential knowledge that makes for wise stewardship. It is important in a democracy that the elite be grounded in the common...
Before Erlich, the Quincy Grille existed in name alone. “They weren’t consistently open, and never on the weekends,” Erlich recalls with playful distaste. The Quincy House Committee granted him stewardship of the Grille after a grueling selection process in which no one else applied. With a carefully crafted one-line application—“I would like to run the Quincy Grille”—Erlich assumed the reins...