Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger is that conferences will be used, not to reach decisions, but to put them off. When a man runs up against a sticky problem there is always the temptation for him to appoint a committee or call a conference to get him off the hook. Says New York Management Consultant Everett Smith: "The average individual is as happy as a clam to hide behind a committee." A variation of the decision-postponing conference is the loaded conference. This is called after an executive has already buttonholed the conferees, thus assured himself that they are in agreement with him. Then...
City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, meanwhile, said yesterday that City Manager John J. Curry '19, will appoint the urban renewal committee next week, thus getting actual planning for Cambridge's face lifting underway. He added that Cambridge would be among the first cities to put the federally supported scheme into operation...
Meanwhile, the Cambridge City Council passed a resolution asking City Manager John J. Curry to set up a Fair Rent Board which would insure equitable rents after the New Year. The resolution read: "That the City Manager be requested to appoint a Fair Rent Board consisting of leading citizens representing both landlords and tenants in order to bring the strongest influence to bear, to insure full justice to all in the process of decontrol...
Albert B. Levin '56, President of the Student Council, said he was "not satisfied with the progress of the committee." Levin added, however, that the Council would probably leave it to the House Committees to appoint a new Food Committee or take any other action...
Meanwhile, several other Cambridge citizens who have worked on the city's urban renewal project agreed that Harvard "has held itself aloof" from municipal problems. They urged that the University appoint a planning board for its own development and that it consult with the city before planning buildings like Shady Hill or the new hygiene center...