Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking over the lost functions, is not known. The number of detailed differences between individual cases is so nearly infinite, says New York University's Professor Clark Randt, that medical science is turning to computers for the answers. But so far it does not have enough data to feed into the machines...
...achieve this quick turnaround, Rawlings, 58, put General Mills through a harsh purge. In what some call "Rawlings' earthquake," he named six new division managers, seven new plant managers and four vice presidents. And he liquidated General Mills' biggest liability -its animal-feed division, which had lost $5,500,000 on sales of $50 million because it was hopelessly behind the competition in decentralizing to get near its customers. This abolished 1,300 jobs at a crack, but, says Rawlings with a battle commander's reasoning, "I felt we had to sacrifice the 1,300 to save...
Backed by Wood's fantastic saves, the topscoring line of Smith, Lamarche, and Treadwell pulled the team to a victory; a feed by Smith to Lamarche ended with a spectacular shot through the legs of the Colorado defenseman, giving Lamarche 16 goals for the season...
...moving upriver to Kaiser, Alcoa and Olin Mathieson aluminum plants on the Ohio. The bauxite ore is transshipped from seagoing ships at New Orleans, but recently Captain Jesse Brent, head of a Greenville, Miss, towing company, bought a shallow-draft, 180-ft. vessel in which he hauls insecticides, feed and fertilizers direct from Memphis to South America. On the return voyage, Brent brings up meat and frozen foods...
...essentials of which might filter up to top management with agonizing slowness. When computers first came along, all they did was to speed up the flow of information within departments. Sometimes, by generating too many new reports, they actually gummed up the works. Management information systems seek to feed current information from every department of a company into a central computer network which, after correlating progress in all areas, will feed back fresh instructions...