Word: stewardship
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...influences more people than any other U.S. fine arts institution. "We have a mandate to serve more people than those who are able to come through our doors," says Brown, a Harvard-educated native of Providence who became director in 1969 after eight years on the staff. Under his stewardship the gallery has expanded an art extension service so that exhibits reach 4 million people a year in 4,000 U.S. communities. He has also begun a building program that will double the museum's size and provide space for a contemporary American art collection and advanced study center...
...many firms. New York Stock Exchange member firms collectively lost some $80 million last year after turning a profit of more than $787 million in 1972. Among the biggest losers was Walston, which reportedly dropped $22.9 million between July and November, the first five months of Perot's stewardship. Meanwhile, duPont Glore Forgan has lost an estimated total of $33.2 million since Perot took control...
...American people were responding to their President's problems, senior TIME correspondents conducted a nationwide survey last week. They found differences from one region to the next; New England was most ready to see Nixon resign or be impeached, the South most willing to forgive his flawed stewardship or even defend him as the victim of his critics. Everywhere there were Americans who still applaud his achievements in foreign policy, and particularly in finally ending the Viet Nam War. But the dominant mood was a growing sense of dismay, disenchantment, despair, and a willingness to recognize if not approve...
...divested, the property should be sold to the most compatible recipient--certainly not to an industry." The Law School's Environmental Law Society saw the report's conclusions "to be not only a contradiction, but seriously in derogation of the University's duties in regard to its stewardship of the forest...
...view was put somewhat more succinctly by Rod Vandivert, a consultant to Scenic Hudson. "If I were a donor to Harvard and saw that they provided good stewardship and protection for my gift, I might do something more for them," he said. "But if I were to give them something in good faith only to have them dispose of it, I would question giving them the next Spiro Agnew watch...