Word: stewardship
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...nine. The surge in status should not be surprising: economics has become hot politics and important news. The most dramatic battles on Capitol Hill during the Reagan Administration have involved taxes and budgets. In the view of many journalists, the President has asked to be judged primarily on his stewardship of the economy. Says CBS News Vice President Edward Joyce: "The President called the nation's attention to these issues, as is proved by the very prevalence of the word Reaganomics...
...drinking bourbon by the fire" in the house of Faulkner's niece. He has, Conaway observes, "grown broad of beam," sitting there with his dog Pete, "a black Lab with the canine equivalent of a beer belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper's, "his stewardship foundered in 1971," so Morris went off "to dwell on the cusp of his own notoriety." His books since are quickly disposed of: one is "a disappointment to his admirers"; another a critic had called "derivative drivel"; a third "did nothing to enhance Morris' reputation...
...always a big organization, but during Bliss's eight-year stewardship it has become a much bigger one, the General Motors of the world's opera companies. A Wall Street lawyer by profession, with close connections to moneyed New York society, Bliss has brought the practices of modern business management to what is, and will always remain, an artistic endeavor...
Increasingly complex federal regulations and Congressional worries over the stewardship of research grants has led to a number of major audits of universities' federally funded projects...
...list contained among other things a series of restrictions on any future government that might want to investigate the military stewardship. Chief among the areas to be glossed over was military culpability in the fate of Argentina's desaparecidos (disappeared ones). At least 6,000 Argentines and foreign nationals vanished between 1974 and 1979 during the country's fratricidal struggle against left-wing terrorism. Also included on the proposed list of taboo topics was the military's humiliating defeat by Britain in last spring's Falkland Islands war, which resulted in 1,366 Argentine casualties...