The station featured new wave ( McNamara " hated " that term because he felt it was a trendy phrase that might be out of style in a year ), synthpop, post-punk, early alternative rock acts as well as novelty records.

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

* November 29 – Vietnam War: U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank.

Vijay Prashad argues that from the 1970s " The World Bank, under Robert McNamara, championed the NGO as an alternative

Largely as a result, on November 29 of that year, McNamara announced his pending resignation and that he would become President of the World Bank.

McNamara served as head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981, when he turned 65.

As World Bank President, McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices would get preferential access to resources.

Daughter Kathleen McNamara Spears is a forester with the World Bank.

*( 1981 ) The McNamara years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Robert S. McNamara, 1968-1981 ; with forewords by Helmut Schmidt and Léopold Senghor.

Working with a range of other Americans prominent in foreign policy, including Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, James Grant of the Overseas Development Council, anthropologist Margaret Mead, World Federalist Chairman H. Donald Wilson, and World Bank president Robert McNamara, Evans organized an organization called New Directions.

In 1980, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, after it was rumored that he was a candidate to succeed Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank.

The chairman of the World Bank, Robert McNamara, referred to him as the Rockefeller of India.

They also found letters taking credit for planned future bombings targeting the University of California, Berkeley campus including the Naval Architecture building, and notes describing a specific plan to kidnap or assassinate World Bank President and former defense secretary Robert McNamara at his winter residence in Aspen, Colorado.

In August 1968 Robert S. McNamara, then President of the World Bank, formed the commission, asking former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Bowles Pearson to head the commission.

The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize ; Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France ; Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank Group ; General George Butler, former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command ; Doctor Maj Britt Theorin, then President of the International Peace Bureau ; Field Marshal Michael Carver, former Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff ; Professor Robert O ' Neill, Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University and former director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ; and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and environmentalist.

He moved to the World Bank, working under Robert McNamara, from 1969 to 1972.

He signed the TCF Bank Stadium bill in May 2006 at the University of Minnesota McNamara Alumni Center.

Clausen's term as World Bank president saw the massive scaling up of structural adjustment lending that had been introduced under his predecessor Robert McNamara.

* November 29: Robert McNamara announces that he will resign as U. S. Secretary of Defense to become President of the World Bank.

The term ' absolute poverty ', when used in this fashion, is usually synonymous with ' extreme poverty ': Robert McNamara, the former President of the World Bank, described absolute or extreme poverty as, "... a condition so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency ".

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

To finance more loans, McNamara told bank treasurer Eugene Rotberg to seek out new sources of capital outside of the northern banks that had been the primary sources of bank funding.

He credits the team's manager at the time, John McNamara, who had previously been the Bronc's catcher-manager, for helping him through that difficult season.

Four years later, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted to Congress that the US ships had in fact been cooperating in the South Vietnamese attacks against North Vietnam.

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

McNamara later testified that he had read the message after his return to the Pentagon that afternoon.

Johnson had fended off proposals from McNamara and other advisers for a policy of bombing the North on four separate occasions since becoming President.

In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2.

A taped conversation of a meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to President Johnson that the attack had even occurred.

In 1967, he contributed to a top-secret study of classified documents regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War that had been commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara.

In 1946, Charles " Tex " Thornton, a colonel under whom McNamara had served, put together a group of officers from his AAF Statistical Control operation to go into business together.

Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford.

It was also generally thought that Systems Analysis, rather than being objective, was tailored by the civilians to support decisions that McNamara had already made.

" Under pressure to proceed with the ABM program after it became clear that the Soviets had begun a similar project, McNamara finally agreed to a " light " system which he believed could protect against the far smaller number of Chinese missiles.

However, many analysts believe that even though the TFX project itself was a failure, McNamara was ahead of his time as the trend in fighter design has continued toward consolidation — the F-16 Falcon and F / A-18 Hornet emerged as multi-role fighters, and most modern designs combine many of the roles the TFX would have had.

The last pages of her book made clear that while Ms. Shapley deeply admired certain aspects of McNamara the man, and the public servant, she had seen first-hand his need to manipulate the truth, as well as to tell it.

Margaret McNamara, a former teacher, used her position as a Cabinet spouse to launch a reading program for young children, Reading Is Fundamental, which became the largest literacy program in the country.

Fifteen years after Truman's order, on July 26, 1963, Robert S. McNamara issued Directive 5120. 36 obligating military commanders to employ their financial resources against facilities used by soldiers or their families that discriminated based upon sex or race.

The McNamara Terminal's ExpressTram is used to transport passengers from one end of the terminal to the other

By 1963, however, McNamara concluded that such plans were useless, because the situations for which nuclear weapons might be used were so unpredictable that advanced planning was impossible.

Originating in the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 during the post-war drawdown, which was used in the 1960s by Robert McNamara ( Kennedy and Johnson administrations ) to close 569 US military installations

McNamara was ridiculed for years afterward for leaving Buckner on the field instead of replacing him with Dave Stapleton, who had previously been used to replace Buckner in late innings for defensive purposes ( including Games 1 and 5 of the World Series ).

This meaning of the term, popularised by Robert McNamara, was used disparagingly and has connotations that refer to the supposed Hindu outlook of fatalism and contentedness.

James did not keep her end of the bargain, however ; she used McNamara / Troy as a base of operations.