Word: worke
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...successors could harness immense resources of economic wealth, political power and military might for the state. The New Deal, Lend-Lease, World War II mobilization, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the building of the nuclear arsenal and the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s?all were the work of presidential leaders who used taxation, legislation, executive orders and persuasion to enlist enormous latent resources...
...Marines of morality, who want everyone to shape up. Strongly opposed by some blacks and teachers, Hunt tried to persuade the state that he did not wish to punish anyone but simply wanted to establish some basic levels of competence in education. When simple persuasion did not work, Hunt tried
GLORIA STEINEM, editor and feminist organizer: Bella Abzug and Andrew Young are the only two leaders of our time who have successfully transposed social movements into the electoral system. Cesar Chavez and Carolyn Reed [director of the National Committee on Household Employment] have redefined work and taken forward the movement to organize the lowest, least paid in the working force. And John Kenneth Galbraith is almost the only link between economic knowledge and the public...
...executive director of the Long Island Gasoline Retailers Association, Troy finds himself in the middle of another minefield. He professes to like his present work. "I don't have to run for re-election," he says. "I enjoy it more than politics. In politics, you're always at the mercy of the people...
...trustee, she oversees not only the 353,400 people and 120 sq. mi. of her home town of Austin but also a household of four sons, aged eleven to 16. McClellan starts the morning with a dawn breakfast followed by car-pool duty to get the children to school, works all day with Austin's city manager and six-member council, and hurries home to cook dinner for her children (she is a divorcee). She then returns to city hall for more paper work. Since taking office in 1977, McClellan has got voter approval of bond issues totaling $141 million...