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...easy to caricature Gephardt as a soulless technocrat masquerading as an angry populist. He has been derided for changing his tune on issues like abortion and moving away from his centrist record. But even when he seemed to be fading in Iowa last fall, Gephardt never jettisoned his controversial trade amendment, despite heavy criticism. Like Babbitt, Gephardt is willing to bear the bad-news message that America's economic distress stems from deeper causes than the budget deficit alone. And he has shown an attribute that should not be underestimated: no candidate in either party surpasses Gephardt in dogged determination...
Salinas, 39, will be Mexico's youngest President in more than a half- century. Like his three predecessors, Salinas is a technocrat and has never held an elected post, although he is the first economist ever to serve in a job occupied primarily by lawyers. Still, Salinas brings ample experience to the presidency, which carries a six-year term. As the Minister of Budget and Planning since 1982, Salinas is both credited and cursed for President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's austerity program. Salinas' task will be to guide Mexico's economy from the sleepy epoch of the sombrero...
...thesequestions in order to establish the study ofelectoral politics at Harvard and in academia on apar with more popular subjects such as managementand policymaking. It is a mission that he feels isvital to the improvement of the American politicalsystem, and one that he says is often overlookedby today's technocrat politicians...
...retraining for adults. To help finance this multibillion-dollar proposal, he would impose a $10-per-bbl. fee on imported oil and make cuts in military and agriculture programs. Although Hart had one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate, he has cast himself as a nonideological technocrat intent on steering the Democratic party away from traditional interest-group liberalism...
ABSOLUTES RARELY mean anything at all. Certainly they should not form the basis of university governance. One person's idealist is another person's technocrat. One person's inviolable principle is another's stepping stone. Ideas become just only if ther community affected by them accepts them as their own. The role of modern administrators is not to impose principles, but solicit concerns and then convince the community that policies adopted satisfy those concerns are appropriate. No absolutes should exist simply because a self-perpetuating group of seven men determine the existence...