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...conference chairman, summed the situation up in his closing speech: "We have concluded our differences in a matter that baffles advocates of conventional diplomacy." Far from being "concluded," those differences remain perfectly real, papered over though they may be. That seems to be the O.A.U. way: consensus without clout...
Ultimately, the more serious problems were bureaucratic. Once again it took a long time to find a person to lead the program; and unfortunately, the man chosen, Dr. Richard R. Rowe, then associate dean for Administration of the School of Education, had neither the academic stature nor the political clout necessary to build a new program at Harvard. Lacking an initial financial commitment to CP3 from any of the four faculties, Rowe was forced to play the role of a beggar. Although he did get the money, the fact that he had to go hat in hand to each...
...Nixon to keep fellow Republicans in Congress behind him on critical votes over the budget. The federal bureaucracy, which Nixon has been trying to manage through second-level officials dispatched from the White House, may now prove restless and untameable. These White House agents have lost much of their clout. Many Republican politicians throughout the nation may move to dissociate themselves further from the dark and billowing cloud...
Unions have lost much of their vibrancy and clout in recent years. The big reason, many critics of the labor movement say, is that union leadership has become calcified in its complacent enjoyment of power and increasingly remote from the workers in the factories and mines. No union was more open to that accusation than the United Mine Workers under the autocratic tenures of John L. Lewis and W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. Now, a rank-and-file coal miner named Arnold Miller is giving this thesis a major challenge by providing the U.M.W. with the kind of leadership that labor...
...glavki will be limited to setting long-term investment and technological policies. They have proved adept at sabotaging previous reforms by constantly changing production targets, setting impractical prices and otherwise meddling in the operation of faraway factories. Presumably, though, the heads of the "production associations" will have more clout in confronting the ministries than the managers of individual plants did after the last reform, because they will speak for much bigger organizations and they are supposed to be executives who have had extensive management training...