Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conglomerate in the 1960s, has been in an agonizing decline since 1981, the last year it made a profit. Now desperately short of cash after losing more than $1.5 billion, the company chose bankruptcy because it saw no prospect for a fast turnaround in the U.S. steel industry's epic slump. The company will operate in Chapter 11 for an estimated 1 1/2 to four years, shielded from creditors to whom it owes more than $4 billion, while it tries to overhaul its steel operations. Declared Chairman Raymond Hay: "We are fully confident that we will emerge from Chapter...
...pugnacious South African State President have each demonstrated an uncanny ability to tough their way through political adversity, often using the sheer force of personality to get their way. As the international calls for economic sanctions against South Africa grow, however, all three leaders resemble conductors who are fast losing control of their orchestras...
...total surveillance of all users, all of the time," boasts company President Allan Clyde. Some software is more manipulative, according to a report on computer monitoring issued last April by the 9 to 5 group. One such program berates workers with messages that say, "You're not working as fast as the person next...
...throwback to 19th century sweatshops, where workers were paid according to their output. Today's version of piecework comes into play when employers set quotas that they want workers to meet under the new monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever to let the computer wait -- ever to let it sit idle. We should realize that...
...Serious Look -- and when you see it, you act." Now the Wasp princess trades in her deb gown for khaki and operates the potato-peeling machine at the Hill of Isaac Kibbutz. "I tried to improve the machine's performance, and for a $ while it did work faster. So fast that it blew up. The supervisor said I was a humiliation to the Jewish race." That adventure ended in three weeks...