Word: bumpier
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Many organizations devoted to the arts -- and not a few corporations -- are badly shaken by the transition from a founding father to a new generation of more practical managers. The changeover is always bumpier if the founder's departure is forced. But rarely is the switch as onerous and nasty, or the repercussions so lingering, as in the boardroom battle that in 1986 ousted William Ball from San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Even today, Ball's successors seek to justify his removal by selling the theme of "renewal" to a still skeptical public...
Last week's committee hearings on Meese's nomination as Attorney General turned out to be bumpier than expected. Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond, a Republican, had scheduled only one day of testimony. But Meese annoyed some Senators by refusing to concede that his personal business dealings with men who later went to work for the Government had been wrong in any way. More seriously, an internal memo from two lawyers in the Office of Government Ethics claiming that Meese had violated rules governing the conduct of federal employees was disclosed by the Wall Street Journal. As a result, the hearings...