Word: consultative
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...campaign strategy. Last week, at the semiannual G.O.P. Governors' Conference at Idaho's Sun Valley resort, they got a chance to question one of the campaign's prime architects and its loudest voice: Vice President Spiro Agnew. He journeyed to the meeting, Agnew said, "to consult with my brothers and if necessary, to debate them, and if convinced by logic, to make changes." His brothers, for the most part, found him a good deal more willing to debate than to change...
Corcoran appears before the City Council now and then as a tired man, hunched over the microphone just to say "We're doing the best we can" or "I'll have to consult the city solicitor and get a legal opinion on this." With his deliberate slow pace of dealing with city affairs he doesn't come across as the sort who'll pull a new card out of his sleeve...
...Fouraker will consult with the MBA Policy and Operating Committee, the MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, and the Coordinating Committee of the Business School to determine the exact amount of the increase...
...committee independent of the Corporation which has the power to vote the proxy and to recommend dropping sundry items from the portfolio would more efficiently channel the political energies of the community. The committee could be triggered to respond whenever the political heat reached a certain intensity. It would consult directly with the Corporation on a case-by-case basis, and even if the Corporation had the right to overrule it, some communication would have taken place. The membership of these groups poses the most awkward question of constitutional mechanics. No small committee can represent all the estates...
...Committee promises a sequel to this report, but this seems uncertain. Had the preliminary report come out a year ago, the Committee might have had enough feedback by now to help guide the new president. As it is, he will probably consult his own commissions and appoint some new successor to the overworked and flagging Committee on Governance...