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Word: divisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granberg, at 49, was known in the neighborhood as a tough, swaggering man who was reportedly prone, during minor community disputes, to flash the gun he usually wore. He had quit his job as an investigator for the state's Division of Human Rights in 1979 after developing cardiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Man from the Dead | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

An executive's most important task is to spur subordinates to peak performance. Grove emphasizes reducing what he calls an employee's CUA factor, for complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, to improve teamwork and increase productivity. When the CUA factor is unavoidably high, as when an outside executive is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Audits: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Officials of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are cracking down on what they believe is the widespread use of threats and violence to force migrants and other transients to work. Prosecutors have dusted off a set of slavery and peonage laws originally dating from the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fighting the New Slavery | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Discontent has come even for the teams currently holding their own. "This hockey division has become wound up; it's very good," said Harvard Athletic Director John Reardon '60. "Harvard has a great hockey tradition, but for some of the other teams it's a problem." And when discontent first...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Out of Their League | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

* The men's swimming team extended its winning streak to 32 meets, currently the longest streak in NCAA Division I swimming. The swimmers added first-place finishes in the Greater Boston Championships and the Eastern Seaboards to their 12-0 dual-meet record.

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The Year That Was | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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