Word: deadwood
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...wants to set up a series of alumni visiting committees, modeled after Harvard's Overseers, to make sure that each school and department is up to snuff. To a large extent, future faculty raises will be on the basis of performance. At the same time, some faculty deadwood will have to be weeded out. "You can't talk about a new standard of quality," says Litchfield, "and not admit that some people cannot rise...
...report urged recommendations to the University Dining Halls that "professional criteria be established for all food preparers," and that an investigation be made into "the great possibility of deadwood on the kitchen staff...
Wessell and Joseph Stefani, business representative of the A.F.L. Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union, which represents the Dining Hall employees, agreed that there is probably some "deadwood" on the kitchen staff, but that it is "almost impossible to eliminate...
...Deadwood" at a Minimum...
Stefani also asserted that Harvard's excellent working conditions and high employment standards have kept "deadwood" trouble in the kitchens at a minimum, however...