Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shuffling about the stage, doing business with his pipe, playing with a mimed dog, recoiling from a searing tea pot, Hughes gives Da even more life than Leonard wrote into the script. At times, he recalls Uncle Ernie of My Three Sons; at others he is Shakespeare's Falstaff. But throughout, Hughes' twinkly eyes and subtle, vaporous quality make him the perfect embodiment of one of Hugh Leonard's bothersome voices...
Promised anonymity, the doctors were often startlingly frank. One, asked about a colleague who was also a close personal friend, replied: "He just isn't top rank." Remarked a specialist of another: "I wouldn't take my dog to that quack." But the doctors were generous in their praise of other colleagues. The result is a book that lists the names and addresses of top-ranked physicians in specialties ranging from allergies to vascular disease and-as a bonus-throws in the names and locations of leading hospitals, clinics and specialty centers...
...York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...history of work innovation experiments indicates that programs which do involve all workers at the lowest levels are the most dramatically productive. The most famous American experience was probably General Foods' Topeka, Kansas dog food factory. An autonomous team system divided into three areas the entire production and packaging process. Team leaders replaced traditional foremen, acting as co-ordinators rather than intimidators. Workers had responsibility for ordering materials, making changes in the work process, and maintaining equipment. Productivity shot up to over 50 per cent of what industrial engineers expected from their calculations based on traditional work methods...
...raise money for expanded human services, Jones favors cuts in the fire and police department budget. "The dog control officers are a real waste of money," he adds...