Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Business Review decided to run "Embezzler's Guide" to stimulate readers' thinking about how to cope with computer fraud, but H.B.R. Editor Ralph Lewis reports that the only response so far has been a few chuckles. Author Allen doubts that his "Embezzler's Guide" will trigger any sudden increase in crime. Says he: "The people who are in a position to do this know what needs to be done anyway." But he admits that he would "feel bad if somebody got caught embezzling as a result of something he read in the article." Adds Allen: "Naturally...
Whatever is later substantiated about Marks' cope-and-dagger stories, TIME'S sources report that the CIA as a matter of policy only rarely tries to make any contact in the field with U.S. missionaries. Over the years, as it did with certain other travelers, the agency interviewed a number of returning missionaries about conditions in the countries they had left. Several Protestant and Catholic mission boards are now discussing whether to direct their people to have no contact at all with the CIA -a policy that the pacifist Church of the Brethren established last October...
...group but also in a crisscrossing web of bilateral talks. It seems likely that no one will know exactly what went on until some time after it's over." Keeping tabs on the receptions, breakfasts, lunches and secret rendezvous is one problem Nelan is prepared to cope with. Among the others: "snarled schedules, traffic jams, overzealous security men, angry reporters and stupefied hoteliers...
...office, he was very conscious of the danger of a collapse of confidence if he allowed too much to be expected of him. Unlike modern Presidents, he never tried to whip Congressmen into line. He accepted their separate function as one of the facts with which he had to cope...
...veteran of the road by the time she was 13, Gladys had learned how to press clothes under hotel mattresses as well as to avoid drug pushers and to cope with racism and greed. Before every concert the four teen-agers joined hands in a prayer circle, a ritual they continue to observe. Small-town promoters quickly spotted their vulnerability. Once after they had given two performances in Paducah, Ky., the promoter pulled out a gun and refused to pay. Says Gladys: "There was nothing we could do except leave in a hurry because we were peace-loving people...