Word: stewardship
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Under Shapiro's stewardship, Princeton's endowment has quadrupled from about $2 billion to about $8 billion. He is also responsible for beginning extensive overhauls of many of the buildings on Princeton's campus...
...internal party forum, where a rising generation of G.O.P. bomb throwers led by Newt Gingrich could gain a hearing from the older leadership, who sometimes seemed to have made their peace with the idea that the Democratic majority in Congress was a permanent fact of life. Cheney used his stewardship of the committee to gain credibility with both generations of Republicans...
...could prove difficult to exploit politically. For one thing, Cheney has won high marks for his stewardship at Dallas-based Halliburton, transforming it into the world's largest provider of oil-field services. He arrived in 1995 and boosted the fortunes of a company beset by low oil prices and slow growth, raising revenues to $15 billion. Cheney's high-level contacts in Washington and around the world helped bring in business. Under Cheney, the company's Brown & Root construction subsidiary has worked hand in hand with the Democratic Administration--as it had done before him with the Bush White...
...establish awards for private land stewardship and encourage conservation...
When Ronald Reagan proposed tax cuts and increases in defense spending in the 1980s, Gore said, "confidence in America's stewardship and self-governance was lost." He said foreign investors began to look elsewhere for growth opportunities and domestic business owners could not do much to expand their businesses...