Word: technocrats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technocrat who rose through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Schmidt, 55, is only five years younger than Willy Brandt, but his brusque, businesslike style has made it seem as if a new generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them...
...professionals were employed by federal, state and local government; but 60% of black professionals held such posts. Government programs that proliferated in the 1960s took many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director of an antipoverty agency in Boston. William Fuller, who earned $8,100 a year as a grade-school teacher in Portland, Ore., illustrates how fast a black technocrat can ascend. Between 1967 and 1969 he advanced from a planner for a Model Cities program to executive...
...almost continuously since 1962, when De Gaulle named him Finance Minister at the blindingly early age of 36, Giscard managed to cast himself as the candidate of "change without risk." Even more remarkable was Giscard's personal transformation. For years his image had been that of an aloof technocrat-a man who, as one longtime colleague put it, could not even give audiences the "impression of belonging to the same race" as their own. Giscard appeared to become a different and much warmer man after he brought his attractive family into the campaign, a major innovation in French politics...
Cheering Citizenry. Portugal's new Premier is Adelino da Palma Carlos, 69, a moderate who is a law professor with a reputation as an apolitical technocrat. Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Moscow-oriented Communist Party chief who returned from exile in Eastern Europe, was named minister without portfolio; his party deputy, Avelino Pacheco Gonçalves, 35, is Minister of Labor. Moderate Socialist Leader Mario Scares, 49, who has conducted a sweeping tour of Europe since the coup, is Portugal's new Foreign Minister...
...feeling in the department is due to the fact that the radicals have decided that politeness is a bourgeois affection. Indeed, the reason I was finally moved to write this letter was the constant suggestion that anyone who doesn't follow their line is a greedy little technocrat just waiting to find a niche in our repressive society. Naturally, the neoclassicists respond in kind. I hope that in the future both sides will substitute reason for invective. Harvey S. Rosen (GSAS...