Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should these failings be corrected? Starting at the top, the Kemeny commission urges abolishing the NRC and replacing it with a single Director of Nuclear Regulation to be appointed by the President. Explained a Kemeny commission member: ''We felt that when you have a collegial body, you delay decision-making while searching for the lowest common denominator of agreement.'' A single director, on the other hand, ''can't pass the buck in an emergency...
...internationally respected newspapers came within a hairbreadth of dying themselves. Exasperated by chronic featherbedding and wildcat disruptions, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization, owner of the newspapers, suspended publication last Nov. 30. Thomson executives felt they could force the anarchic print unions into line within several months, at the outside, but they underestimated the complexity of the task and the resiliency of their adversaries. A final agreement was not reached until last week, just hours before the deadline Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey had implicitly set for closing the papers for good...
Much of Fleet Street felt the Times had taken a dreadful drubbing. The Daily Mail suggested that the final deal could have been secured without "this magnificent yet monumentally ill-thought-out charge of the Times management light brigade." Rivals were also concerned that the Times's largesse would lead to exorbitant demands by their own employees...
Smooth as the process seems on the outside, there have been a few internal struggles for the CCA this year--some members of a rival liberal group, CPPAX, felt they were being left out of the endorsement and campaign process. As a result, "some of us haven't given as much time as we might have to the campaign," one disgruntled CPPAX member proclaimed...
...collect rent, not pay it. Virulently anti-rent control, with almost a messianic attachment to condominiums, the CHT leaders a few weeks ago endorsed a slate of candidates all their own. But although the group will mail out leaflets and help work at the polls, their presence isn't felt in the same way as the CCA's, mainly because their candidates are of a different breed. Instead of the team players on the CCA, they tend toward individual stardom--Walter Sullivan for example has a network of buddies and relatives built up since he broke into the major leagues...