Word: conn
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...proceeds will go for a memorial honoring Eric H. Straceman '85, who slipped in the shower at his New Canasa, Conn., home last May 24, knocking himself unconscious and drowning in a few inches of water...
There is now a code word for this kind of operation: intrapreneurship. Gifford Pinchot III, 42, a management consultant from New Haven, Conn., coined the term and has written a book about it called Intrapreneuring, or Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (Harper & Row, $19.95). Writes Pinchot: "The more rapidly American business learns to use the entrepreneurial talent inside large organizations, the better. The alternative in a time of rapid change is stagnation and decline...
Wesleyan University president Conn G. Campbell drafted the letter. Other signatories include the presidents of Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Yale Universities and of Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Dartmouth, Haverford, Oberlin, Smith, Swarthmore and Williams colleges...
Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, friend of congressional committee chairmen, was accustomed to getting his way with defense contractors. Once, according to congressional investigators, while visiting General Dynamics' Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., the crusty admiral admired a horn-handled fruit knife and idly declared that he would like to have a dozen of them. Shipyard executives hopped to. The handle was shipped off to a General Dynamics' lab, where analysis revealed that it had been made from the horn of a rare Southeast Asian buffalo. More buffalo horn was sent for, and a dozen...
While Bhopal was full of frantic activity, an air of funereal quiet hung over Union Carbide's sprawling headquarters in Danbury, Conn. Flags were flying at half-mast; Christmas parties had been canceled. "Nobody is feeling very festive around here," said a company official. Indeed, the survivors of the tragedy and those being accused of responsibility for it were distinctly hard pressed last week. Both groups remained haunted by the prospect of delayed repercussions: the 200,000 residents of Bhopal who had inhaled the gas faced lingering fears and possible long-term medical effects, while Union Carbide...