Word: tasks
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...between as ballots are laboriously counted and stamped. Then, as the redistribution picks up speed, the flurries of activity come closer together, though waiting for the next count is always an infinity for any politician, anywhere. The onlookers join in the handicapping game, in particular attempting the difficult task of determining which candidates will have number two votes to give to which others, or as they put it. "who'll be feeding whom." Conversations go like this...
...task of the Secretary of Labor, and probably his most delicate one, to set the tone of the Administration in major labor-management disputes. In that, George Pratt Shultz stands in sharp contrast to his activist Democratic predecessors, Arthur Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, who intervened frequently if reluctantly at Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free...
Clever Compromises. Nixon hardly knew Shultz when he appointed him Secretary of Labor. The President was impressed by a pre-election task-force report on manpower that Shultz had written and by the enthusiastic recommendations of his closest economic advisers, Arthur Burns and Paul McCracken. Mild-mannered and professorial, the new Secretary seemed at first to be another unremarkable technician in a Cabinet noted for its blandness. His speeches still resemble a lecture in Business Administration...
...main task of the organization. Lee said, will be "to coordinate our efforts toward the liberation of all African peoples and the building of a black nation...
Briefly stated, the radical argument for actions such as those of the November Action Coalition (NAC) is that certain projects within a university should be "stopped" because they serve an evil function-usually aiding the United States in suppressing people's liberation movements throughout the world. The task of radicals, therefore, is to build a movement which will become powerful enough to "stop" those projects. Tactics-violent or non-violent-cannot be considered on an a priori basis. but only in terms of what will most aid the building of the movement at a given point...