Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Action Grants. If some social programs have to be curtailed to cut the deficit and make the economy healthy again, fine. "You can talk about all the social programs you want, but there is no substitute for a viable economy," contends Tsongas. "This may take us into conservative Republican turf, but if that's what it takes...
...reason the forecasts proved wrong is that, as Jenkins put it, "the people have turned back from the Falklands to unemployment and the economy." On that turf, Jenkins' experience as Chancel lor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970 helped him a good deal. Jenkins, however, now faces an uphill battle. The Social Democrats and the Liberal Party reached 44% in the polls last November, ahead of both Thatcher's Conservatives (27%) and the Labor opposition (27%). But in the wake of the Falklands victory, the Tories have become the favorites, with 45%; the Social Democrats, with...
After succeeding John Connally as Treasury Secretary in 1972, he took on responsibility for coordinating the Administration's economic and domestic policy. He displayed an impressive talent for exercising authority and expanding turf without ruffling feathers or alienating colleagues. Says former Budget Director James Lynn: "He's one of the best base-touchers I've ever seen." An official who served under Shultz at Treasury explains that "he could make everyone, even those opposed to the action taken, feel an integral part of the process...
...staff during Watergate, that policymaking in Washington is a multiheaded monster. He could hardly have forgotten Kissinger's rantings at what the NSC chief saw as unwarranted interference by Secretary of State William Rogers. Or perhaps he learned too well from Kissinger that each little fight for bureaucratic turf, each squabble over who gets the fanciest globe-girdling aircraft, or who sleeps closest to the President in some foreign capital, can be of political as well as personal importance...
...need Manuel's services. TIME has learned that the hiring was actually scrapped by Hickey's boss, Michael Deaver, deputy chief of staff at the White House. Deaver was annoyed that Hickey had apparently secured Meese's approval to employ Man uel; jealous of his bureaucratic turf, Deaver ordered the hiring stopped...