Word: stewardship
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...takes a big breath. "When the federal government starts sending in registrars and enforcing the laws already on the books, when the North accepts the social responsibility that goes with the ownership of all the corporate wealth in the South, when Harvard and all the Harvards take the stewardship of their Southern investments as a social concern that is equal to their concern for the education of young men--that's when someone in the South who's a normal human being wedded to his hometown will be able to take the stances that are necessary to achieve change...
...getting so that members of the local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida's west coast, and Nassau, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed a little more practice. And a little more flavor. I think she needs fur ther instruction." "Noel Coward once said that some women should be struck regularly...
...Helen H. Gilbert, who served as Acting President, will now devote her full attention to her position as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mrs. Gilbert often referred to her role during the past year as a "stewardship," noting that the course had already been charted for her. "My job was to steer the ship," she said recently...
Paul Codman Cabot, LL.D., treasurer of Harvard University. Two presidents and a succession of fellows of Harvard College have found their burdens of discourse as well as stewardship lightened by the bluntness of your speech and the soundness of your cold-roast Boston eye for the Yankee dollar...
...first four years, under the stewardship of dedicated, left-of-center Economist Celso Furtado, Sudene plowed $40 million into the area, mostly for dams, power projects, roads and other facilities essential to attract industry. The U.S. chipped in $131 million in development loans and grants, while private investors committed $300 million. Despite ever-increasing bureaucratization, overall production in the Northeast climbed 6% in 1964 (v. a 3% decline for Brazil as a whole). Then, in the wake of the March 1964 revolution, the military decided that Leftist Furtado should be purged; he was replaced by Sociologist...