Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...first task, as MacGregor knows, will be communications. His own are secure: he will report directly to Nixon rather than through presidential aides. MacGregor promised that all congressional phone calls will be answered within 24 hours; the lack of prompt response is a point of much criticism. MacGregor may increase his office's staff as much as 50%. He also vowed to let Congressmen know exactly where the President stands on pending legislation. Says MacGregor: "I'm going to be in the position of a lawyer with one client and a jury of 535. The cause is attractive...
Pursued to the extreme, the trend toward fragmentation of trading could return markets to a primitive condition, in which investors would have to guess how many shares of what securities were traded and at what price. Few, if any, of the other markets have the prompt reporting of price and volume information that the Big Board does. They also lack the elaborate mechanisms that the N.Y.S.E. has developed to guard against chicanery...
Dean May felt the Nixon administration was acting in a way "consistent with their analysis" of the situation. "I suppose it's a signal to North Vietnam that the American government is prepared to take 'prompt and efficient' action, if the North Vietnamese explicitly or implicitly refuse to accept a 'just peace,'" he said...
...from muted. While with Pope Paul at the Vatican, he observed incongruously that he was about to visit the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-"the mightiest military force that exists in the world on any ocean." The Pope gently raised a sensitive topic, expressing his hope for a prompt peace in Viet Nam. Then, in a ten-minute talk to seminarians at the Vatican's North American College, Nixon used the word "power" no fewer than 14 times. He referred to himself "very humbly," as the "President of the strongest nation in the world, with more power perhaps than...
Most telling, perhaps, was the fate of a proposal that recognized the potential role of computers in simplifying and speeding the work of Congress. Legislators find themselves increasingly inundated by tons of laboriously produced reports. It was proposed, therefore, that a computer data bank be established to provide prompt and comprehensive information for lawmakers who want to do their homework properly...