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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff. So he borrowed from a successful participatory management scheme introduced in 1972 at a car-mirror plant in Bolivar, Tenn. Isaacs set up eight committees (there are now eleven) composed of newsroom volunteers and usually a management representative. The committees suggested ways to improve the Star's design, writing, editorials, special sections and allocations of manpower, space and money. A strategy committee considered the paper's overall position in the market. Says Reporter Frank Allen, 32, chairman of the strategy group: "We were supposed to take the lid off the bottle and think as wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Democracy in Minneapolis | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...nearly a quarter-century after the Village Voice was launched as an alternative to New York City's conventional dailies-the alternative press has become so established that it is very nearly Establishment itself. Gone for the most part are the radical polemics, scatological prose and serendipitously amateur design that were staples of underground journalism. In their place are entertainment listings, movie and record reviews, consumer buying guides, elegant graphics, ads, ads, ads and more ads-for stereo equipment, records, furniture, sporting goods, liquor and other trophies of the good life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Notes from the Underground | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...said she is considering bringing together Patricia M. King, the director of the Schlesinger Library, and Mellon and Centennial Scholars to design a women's studies course for degree credit. Horner holds a tenured position enabling her to sponsor such a course...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Horner and Radcliffe Students Discuss Women and Education | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...form of halos, plaques, ex-votos and jewels fixed on the paint surface-to cubist sculpture. A work like Woman with a Fan (1914) combines both; it is almost as hieratic as a Russian saint. Yet nothing could have been more modern than the funnel Archipenko inserted into the design, like a negative breast, a conical hole that goes straight through the canvas at the back, turning painting into sculpture with one gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At the Meeting of the Planes | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Originally, the NRC said it suspected all Babcock & Wilcox reactors (the type of reactor in use at Middletown) had design defects that could promote problems similar to those encountered in Pennsylvania. Early this week, that claim was refuted, and B & W reactors got a clean bill of health...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: After the Fallout | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

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