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Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...
Power lines travel into most cities from several directions, but all the major cables connecting Con Ed to other pools of electric power run in a single corridor from the north. Last week a storm apparently knocked out all eight of these lines within an hour. Says an executive of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison: "If a major line goes out here, we can interchange a lot more easily and flexibly." One reason for the difference: Commonwealth Edison can more readily obtain right-of-way for power lines in Midwestern farmlands than can Con Ed in the crowded Eastern Megalopolis...
...extent that geography adds to the vulnerability of major power lines, New York is not alone. In the peninsular state of Florida, all the lines to power pools elsewhere run up and down in a fairly narrow corridor. Last May 2.5 million residents in five Florida counties (including Miami's Bade County) were without power for approximately four hours after the electric system short-circuited...
...romantics almost always pay for succumbing to egoism and stepping out of line Auchincloss's novels and story collections (nearly one a year for 20 years) deal almost exclusively with New York City's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant haven of old name and old money, whose corridor of power runs from the brownstones and duplexes of the Upper East Side to the paneled offices of Wall Street. It is an influential, publicity-shy world where the rules of the game are hardened by tradition. The costs, and sometimes the rewards, of breaking these rules are the author...
They are the last American ground forces on the Asian mainland. Manning guard posts along the Uijongbu Corridor, 14,000 G.I.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division stand astride the traditional invasion route from northern Korea to Seoul. For nearly 25 years, the presence of the 2nd Division along the Demilitarized Zone has been visible proof of America's commitment to defend the Seoul government against renewed aggression from the north. But the division's days in South Korea are numbered; President Carter has decided to withdraw the 2nd, along with its 17,700 support troops...