Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become profitable. It earned $39.2 million in 1981 and $174.2 million in 1982 on revenues of $3.6 billion. Last week the U.S. Railway Association, a Government agency that oversees Conrail's operations, reported to Congress that the rescue operation has been a success. Says Conrail Chairman L. Stanley Crane: "I can't brag like Iacocca, but the Government is going to get some of its money back...
Much of the credit for Conrail's resurgence goes to Chairman Crane, 67, who took over the line in 1981 after spending nearly his entire career at the Southern Railway, the last three years as president. A short, wiry expert in operations, Crane charged up employees with a sense of purpose and firmly established company goals...
...Crane said that the department is one of the leaders among the country. "Everyone is interested in doing this type of work, but no one has gotten it together to pull...
...think it's necessarily a good idea to have a grand strategy," Gregory R. Crane '79, assistant manager of the Computer Lab at the Classics Department said, adding that it would become too cumbersome and unwieldy...
Simply by pressing a special key, the computer will change its language to one of the foreign offerings, according to Crane...