Word: superintend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a time of difficult re-evaluation for many women. Sending in Harvard College to superintend that growth seems to me a little too much like sending the fox to tend the chicken coop. Not that I have the slightest doubt that Harvard foxes are honorable men, who would selflessly and unflaggingly dedicate themselves to our best interests--but I would rather not give them the opportunity right now to prove my faith unwarranted. I sleep better when my watchguard's solicitude is motivated by mutual self-interest, rather than benevolence...
...International Development Corporation, to manage some direct economic assistance as well as humanitarian programs such as disaster relief; the U.S. International Development Institute, to oversee technical assistance such as birth control programs and economic planning; and an as yet undefined authority, presumably responsible directly to the White House, to superintend all foreign economic policies, including trade as well as aid. Nixon is also attempting to solve a continuing problem of stability in the aid program-the uncertainty of just how much Congress will appropriate each year-by proposing that future funding for the development corporation and institute...
...Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shultz and his staff will be expected to superintend overall execution of Government programs. Besides hunting down superfluous activities, OMB will assume the staff and functions of the present Bureau of the Budget, including its efficiency-expert role. Mayo had been expected to head the enlarged operation. The fact that he was bypassed is significant. Mayo, a skilled economist with nearly 20 years of federal service, is not an innovator, a policymaker or an advocate who can fight effectively for his point of view. Shultz is all three. Further, Mayo...