Word: technocrats
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...Yale-educated Williams was once known as the anti-Barry, the technocrat the city needed. Now Williams has became a symbol of a leadership many feel is out of touch with the concerns of residents. Enter the ?Mayor for Life,? who shows up on the streets and asks residents how their mothers are doing. ?We miss you, we?re so glad you're back,? 51-year-old Sunetta Vincent yells from her car a Safeway parking lot to Barry, who made a short trip there a few days before he was to start his city council job. People come...
...that brings us back to Dishman at Intel, who doesn't necessarily favor a fully automated health-care system devoid of the doctor-patient bond. He's not a technocrat by training or by nature. He's a sociologist who studies people--their needs and desires. "People didn't really embrace hearing aids until they became small enough not to be embarrassing," he says. That's even more the case with something as sensitive as incontinence--a problem, like so many, that technology can help solve, but only once we're willing to accept the cure...
APPOINTED. JOHN THAIN, 48, president of investment bank Goldman Sachs; as chief executive of the beleaguered New York Stock Exchange; in New York City. Thain, a well-regarded technocrat, will take over the CEO post from interim chairman and chief executive John Reed, who will remain chairman under a new structure that splits the chairman and CEO jobs. Both were held by Dick Grasso, who resigned in September in the wake of protests over his hefty pay package...
...there is one lesson to be learned from California's wild recall, it is that there is no one lesson. At a moment when the stakes could not have been higher, voters turned out a seasoned if bloodless technocrat and put their faith in an action hero who waved a broom. In an era of interminable campaigns, this one lasted nine weeks. At a time when other politicians hauled around briefcases full of 100-page platforms, Arnold Schwarzenegger spouted lines from his movies, gave no substantive interviews and agreed to exactly one debate, for which he knew the questions...
...succeeds Zhu?who championed his promotion to Premier and to the nine-member politburo Standing Committee?carrying a reputation as a buttoned-down technocrat who lacks not only his mentor's fiery bravado but also his business savvy. Even during his four-year stint as Vice Premier, Wen was rarely called upon to deal with foreigners or promote market economics. Some question whether he has the clear vision and political will to run China's contentious Cabinet while managing a trillion-dollar economy, overseeing the layoffs of millions of angry workers in state companies and forcing another round of market...