Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"Diplomacy for the 70s," a 610-page report compiled by 13 task forces drawn from all levels of the department's bureaucracy, charged the Foreign Service with timidity, inflexibility and lack of creativity. Most of the department's time, said the study, has been "devoted to applying the...
Failure of Nerve. As an antidote, the report suggested the cultivation of specialists and men trained in the management of people, paper and budgets. In this respect, the report is a decade-later application of Robert McNamara's Whiz Kids techniques to the nation's oldest executive agency...
The most significant of the suggested reforms, which numbered more than 500, dealt with the development of creativity and dissenting viewpoints within the department. Quite simply, the report asked that innovation be viewed as the norm rather than the exception, proposing the creation of adversary procedures that would routinely challenge...
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For State, which experienced its greatest growth during the first ten years after World War II, the recommendations may have come too late. Policy-making power has shifted gradually from Foggy Bottom to the White House staff and the Pentagon. The shift resulted partly from a failure of nerve by...