Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...week's end Washington was alive with reports that Haig would face a stiff confirmation fight in the Senate, and that the President-elect had still not definitely offered the general the job. There were few other serious candidates. Reagan might offer the post to Weinberger, but that would leave a vacancy at Defense, or to former Secretary of the Treasury...
...Management and Budget. The inner circle will meet with Reagan regularly to review the whole range of Government problems and will be charged with making sure that his orders are carried out. Thus the people filling these posts-basically the Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury and the Attorney General-must be capable of giving advice on a broad variety of subjects...
Weinberger's selection, which was still not final at week's end, opened the job of Secretary of State as a possibility for General Haig, 56. Haig's insistence that the U.S. must counter the Soviet military buildup and threatening moves in the Third World parallels the foreign policy views of Reagan. Haig also wins applause from Western Europeans for his stress on strengthening the NATO alliance. Says a top West German defense official: "The man is quite simply the best that Washington has ever sent us." Haig was considered for Secretary of Defense, but that post...
...search committee composed of ten trustees, four faculty members and three students selected Keohane unanimously, Rachel Jacoff, a faculty member of the committee, said. Keohane was selected becasuse of "her distinction of mind, her vitality and energy, and her commitment to women's issues and scholarship in general," Jacoff said...
...Thursday, Reagan ended some of the suspense building around his protracted search for a Cabinet and announced eight appointments. They included: Donald T. Reagan '40, secretary of the treasury; Caspar W. Weinberger '38, secretary of defense; William French Smith, Harvard Law '42, attorney general; Andrew (Drew) L. Lewis Jr., Harvard Business '55, secretary of transportation; and Rep. David A. Stockman (R-Mich.), director of the Office of Management and Budget, Harvard Divinity...