Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, I reflected biterly, I could "stabilize" my relationship to students like these simply by trading upon my assets and employing or managing them, learning the habits and subtleties of command; their racism need not concern me. My present teaching is impotent, naive; why beat my head against the wall...
...legal prose last week as he announced his findings in four lawsuits attacking the entire Alabama state penal system. To Johnson, the situation was so critical and responsible officials were so derelict that in the most sweeping order ever aimed at a state correctional system, he virtually took command of Alabama's prisons...
...just the prestige of the title that carries the weight with the voters the next time around. The mayor has at his command a car and a driver, three staff positions, a summer job program employing 150-200 boys, an expense account for travel and for wining and dining dignitaries, $1000 more pay than his fellow councilors, free office space, and control over the city hall switchboard...
...most annoying thing was not Paul K. Rowe's review itself (everyone is entitled to an opinion, however wrong), but the customary godlike attitude that the Crimson takes toward its readers. Are we really intended to take Jeff Flanders' command to "throw away all the reviews you've seen of it" (Flanders is better equipped to evaluate a film than Reed, Crist, Canby, Kael, et al) seriously, or is it another example of the Crimson's weird, self-serving sense of humor? Are Handel, Bach and Schubert "second-rate music"? Why the duplication of reviews rather than the "dissenting minority...
Managing a modern corporation has put an increasing strain on the time, skills and knowledge of the chief executive. As corporate complexities multiply, more companies are turning to a management setup that attempts to broaden corporate leadership by drastically altering the traditional chain of command. Instead of one man at the pinnacle, the companies are creating the so-called "office of the chairman," which is composed of three, four or even five top officers who share responsibility for running the company and transform the old method of solitary decision making into a kind of group think. Last week the idea...