Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managers and four vice presidents. And he liquidated General Mills' biggest liability -its animal-feed division, which had lost $5,500,000 on sales of $50 million because it was hopelessly behind the competition in decentralizing to get near its customers. This abolished 1,300 jobs at a crack, but, says Rawlings with a battle commander's reasoning, "I felt we had to sacrifice the 1,300 to save the 13,000 other employees...
Through a Glass Darkly. A wise and warm and frightening picture in which Ingmar Bergman tells the story of a young woman (Harriet Andersson) who looks through a crack in the wall that limits reason from unreason and on the other side sees God-an enormous spider...
...advantages. One is the academic backbone they lend to many small colleges: with fresh applicants, the schools need not flinch at flunking out students for fear of losing tuition income. Another beneficiary is the top-of-the-class high school senior who might as well get an early crack at college. Less qualified high school graduates, on the other hand, need not enter college in the fall, but can wait until midyear and use the time to prepare themselves better. And if they enter colleges with the quarter system, they can go to the summer quarter and be sophomores right...
...that was dominated by a bunch of classless pugs. He taunted opponents gleefully ("What's the matter-can't you hit me?"), beat them with eye-catching combination punches. Until 1958 he was undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson. Then Machen had one dreadful fight. Traveling to Sweden, he took on little-known Ingemar Johansson, was standing idly in mid-ring when Johansson unloaded his "toonder and lightning" right hand and flattened Machen with a flash first-round knockout...
...solve its problems, Ampex called in a management consultant firm which in turn called in personable William E. Roberts, 38, a crack administrator who had just lost out in an executive suite battle for the presidency of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. Roberts, who passed up 15 other job offers to take on the presidency of Ampex, proceeded to cut administrative costs by $4,600,000 in a single year. He recentralized financial control in Redwood City, hired one ad agency to replace five, and consolidated Ampex's diffused marketing operations ("We had as many as four offices...