Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While a case-by-case approach may appear on its face to be a fair and rational one, in practice it has been a prescription for obfuscation and delay. First, the entire process is dependent on data and information the corporations themselves provide. While most major companies provide information on employment practice, few (if any) are willing to provide information on taxes paid to the South African government, sales of strategic products and services, etc. In fact, corporations are precluded under South African law from disclosing sales to military and law enforcement agencies...
...emphasis on improving management is important. But I wonder -will encouraging competition among managers lead to more efficient Government, or simply to more and better empire building? No new standards for what constitutes good management have been laid down, and in their absence, it's fair to assume that the bureaucrats will continue to respond to old ones...
...supervisor, F.D. Cobourn, was neither an economist nor a manager by training. A classic case of the Peter Principle, he had been promoted fairly rapidly until he hit a position he couldn't handle, and there he sat. An introverted man who had once apparently been a fair researcher and writer, he simply could not manage an office. He would grunt hello in the morning and then disappear into his office, where he spent his days rearranging the commas in our reports...
...fair maid trust the promises of a fine gentleman...
...hardest struggle has been to police prices. In the U.S.'s trillion-dollar economy, no single formula could be fair to every company. COWPS' 45-page booklet of basic regulations is so loaded with well-intentioned but confusing caveats, qualifications and exceptions that not even lawyers seem able to understand it. Meanwhile, fresh legalese spews forth almost daily from COWPS in an effort to clarify, amplify or refine earlier regulations and procedures...