Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop in London's Oxford Street. Legend has it that his son Spedan, while checking the books one day, found the family was earning more than the entire roster of employees. He devised a profit-sharing scheme, and in 1929 started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some...
Parts Pool. The Eastern-TWA deal is not the first instance of cooperation between cost-conscious airlines. In fact, with aircraft maintenance bills already exceeding $1.4 billion a year, or one-quarter of the total operating budgets of U.S. carriers, sharing of maintenance costs has become increasingly common. Airlines flying Boeing 707s utilize the same spare-parts pool. United Airlines in San Francisco services jet aircraft for ten other airlines. In San Diego, "Pacific Southwest Airlines operates a training program for pilots from such lines as Nippon, Alitalia and Braniff...
...negotiate toward merger came in October in a phone call between Allis-Chalmers Chairman Robert S. Stevenson and Shumway, who was attending a Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind. Signal's purchase price figures to be worth about $45 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common (last week's closing: $38.75), considerably less than the $55-$60 estimate that Ling put on his final offer. That could mean trouble for Allis-Chalmers, which has already been hit with a stockholders' suit challenging the rejection of Ling's offer; one party that expressed displeasure with...
Instead, his medievalism, in the Victorian fashion, laid the foundation of a busy, prosperous and productive life. He detested the Renaissance, but he was close to resembling the common notion of what a many-faceted Renaissance man should be. Biographer Henderson presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired...
Admissions officials begin to squirm when the word "quota" turns up in conversation. "The only quota is the quota of common sense," says Cotton. Doermann doesn't think the docket system imposes any quota at all, "but I can see why someone wouldn't believe...