Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sulzberger notes that "we are overmanned in too many areas." His letter complained of restrictive union practices that have blocked automation, careless printing errors in classified ads that require $2,000,000 a year worth of reruns, and a disturbing increase in plant sabotage. "I don't want to appear quarrelsome," he wrote, "but these matters affect your security, your work and your company. You are going to have to help solve them if this company is to be a prosperous...
...True enough, the more moderate consensus approach has serious drawbacks and risks. It consists, as Okun says, of "controls for the big fellow and sermons for the little fellow." Okun justifies the seeming unfairness by drawing a distinction between economic "whales" and "minnows," and contending that "careless swimming by the whale and careless swimming by the minnow are very different matters so far as the safety of the creatures of the sea is concerned...
Park will have the nucleus of a solid hitting club (with a .300 hitter at number eight in Serrano) and a strong fielding club that will prevent careless runs. The big question in the Crimson's plans is its meager pitching staff. Of course, pitching was the big mystery last spring also and the hurlers turned out to be the best in the Eastern League...
...like it or not, man is already controlled by external influences. Some are haphazard; some are arranged by careless or evil men whose goals are selfish instead of humanitarian. The problem, then, is to design a culture that can, theoretically, survive; to decide how men must behave to ensure its survival in reality; and to plan environmental influences that will guarantee the desired behavior. Thus, in the Skinnerian world, man will refrain from polluting, from overpopulating, from rioting, and from making war, not because he knows that the results will be disastrous, but because he has been conditioned to want...
...responsibility requiring judgment and wisdom of a high order. A very first principle of that wisdom would be an insistence upon avoiding secrecy for its own sake. For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion...