Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became clear that Viet Nam was turning into a "proxy war" fought mainly by Vietnamese with sharply reduced U.S. casualties. "From that point on," says Gelb, "nobody could rouse the people on the war issue." Others, among them Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, say that reluctant tolerance of Nixon's stewardship began to turn to something like admiration after his decision to mine North Viet Nam's ports last spring-widely regarded by the public as a daring and successful riposte to Russian and Chinese perfidy...
...idealistic perhaps to expect us as individual consumers and entrepreneurs to move voluntarily in the direction of responsible stewardship of our private incomes and our natural resources. I submit that it is no more realistic to assume that greater well-being is inevitably linked with more direction of the economy by Government...
...Yard will also be greener this year, thanks to the work of an amorphous group of students, faculty and administrators known as the 'Green Committee'. Under the informal stewardship of Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni Affairs, the Committee has been at work for almost a year on plans to beautify the Yard...
Tanaka's accession to power may well mark the end of the reserved and cautious style of national stewardship epitomized by his predecessor, Eisaku Sato, 71. The new Premier's election automatically followed his victory in a hard-fought struggle for leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose popularity had eroded in the later years of Sato's 7½-year regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last...
...were a donor to Harvard and saw that they provided good stewardship and protection for my gift. I might do something more for them," said Henry Diamond of Scenic Hudson. "But if I were to give them something in good faith only to have them dispose of it. I would question giving them the next Spiro Agnew watch...