Word: booz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electrical repairs. The chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf, he and his wife discovered that the rent was only the beginning of their housing costs. "Not only did we have no appliances, but we had to buy the kitchen sink," says Mrs. Wyman...
This was not the first such setback for Burns, who combines his executive ability, recognized even by his critics, with rare aggressiveness - sometimes too rare for his employers to stomach. A longtime star in the management-con ulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamil ton, Burns presided over a study of RCA's marketing problems that impressed RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff to the extent that in 1957 he hired Burns as president. The mutual admiration did not last. Under Burns, RCA became deeply involved in the computer making business, and in one year took a $100 million loss...
Boyden got his first broad look at the management market in 1941, when he left a 16-year career as Montgomery Ward's personnel director to join Booz, Allen & Hamilton, one of the nation's biggest management-consulting firms (annual billings: $40 million including scientific, technical and design services). There Boyden soon learned that top men were hard to find in the war-thinned ranks of many corporations. The market for a recruiter of talented executives seemed limitless, so in 1946 Boyden set up his own shop...
...Local historians maintain that the town helped popularize the word "booze." The term was coined earlier but gained wide currency when a now-defunct Glassboro glassworks made cabin-shaped bottles for William Henry Harrison's 1840 log-cabin presidential campaign. The contents were supplied by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz...
...Warren retires. Burns's background in the oil business is scanty, but he has other attributes to offer: he holds a doctorate in metallurgy from Harvard, worked his way from laborer to wire-division head at Republic Steel, became a partner in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton and an adviser to 30 blue-chip corporations before joining...