Word: sneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coalesced into fat, grimy raindrops, which do not help my already-dishelved appearance. Happily, Rockefeller Center is warm and dry, and after only half an hour lost in the tunnels. I manage to find the offices of the president and chairman of the board of Union Carbide, William Sneath...
Actually, while I find his offices with little trouble, it takes a bit more searching to find Sneath. First, I wait while his receptionist contacts one of his staff assistants. Then a vice president receives me in his office, giving me Sneath's background and accomplishments, and generally scrutinizing me to see if I might traumatize his boss with an ill-chosen question. Finally, the vice president accompanies me to Sneath's enormous office--and stays for the interviews, injecting his comments quickly whenever I broach what he thinks is a sensitive issue...
Like deButts and Adam, Sneath emphasizes the growing moderation of the business community. "I'm a Republican. The Democratic Administration has two years to go. There's no basis in my mind, either personally or as the corporation, to fight the President, "he says." We want to help him. We want him to succeed." Sneath disapproves of the "strictly political kneejerk reaction (which) is to take potshots at whoever is in office if he's with the opposition...
...general, Sneath avoids the kind of political involvement that deButts welcomes and that Adam endured for a year before returning to his role as corporate chief. He focuses mostly on concerns that affect Union Carbide directly. He leaves lobbying to his legislative vice presidents...
...Sneath is bucking the current trend of the CEO's increasing political involvement. The large corporation is no longer content to merely send contributions to members of Congress in the hope that they will remember the generosity of corporate America when antitrust legislation and the like comes up for consideration. Big business now sends its titular heads as emmisaries to Washington. Like the ruler of a foreign nation, the CEO's charisma--derived from his control of billions and billions of dollars--gives him access to the powers-that-be in Washington. In principle, every citizen has equal political right...