Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that AA is an instrument of unfairness. He bases his views on what he interprets as the progress of individual blacks into the system as a result of bootstrap pulling and the flexibility of the system operating with a sentiment for equal opportunity. He totally ignores the masses of urban working class blacks still earning one-half the wages of their white counterparts. To Glazer, AA represents unnecessary piles of bureaucratic headaches. We are told women and minorities have gained too much to the extent that "reverse racism" and affirmative discrimination now is rampant. This anti-AA propaganda...
...sound manager, Carter plans to restore the powers of the Cabinet Secretaries, so badly eroded by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In addition to regular Cabinet meetings, Carter intends to have smaller groups of Secretaries confer on issues that cut across departmental lines, such as urban development. "I'll use the Cabinet very aggressively," he says. "I don't intend to run the departments from the White House. I'm going to have a relatively small staff, and I'll trust my Cabinet members to manage their own departments." Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, explains that Carter's organization chart...
...Carter could claim proven experience among other nominees. Minnesota Congressman Bob Bergland, his prospective Agriculture Secretary, is a real farmer. Carter also managed, finally, to find women for his Cabinet: black Washington Attorney Patricia Harris, who will be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Economist Juanita Kreps, named to Commerce...
...NUCLEAR WAR. Limited strategic war is almost impossible. Anyone who contemplates one is fooling himself if he thinks the chances are not overwhelming that it would become an all-out urban and industrial attack...
...have, you know, done a few things in my life," said Patricia Roberts Harris, when critics complained of her lack of credentials for the job to which Jimmy Carter named her last week: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Hers was quite an understatement. A black Washington lawyer, she knows the worlds of business, academe and government. Moreover, by appointing her, Carter got a kind of "twofer": as a black and as a woman, she is proof that the President-elect is trying to open his Cabinet to both groups...