Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dating to hobbies to parents, many of them rather abstract. (Admits Hite: "You can quantify orgasms, but you can't quantify love.") After receiving the first 1,500 responses, Hite says, she made a demographic comparison between her respondents and the general U.S. female population. Then she sought to fill in spots to ensure a sample more representative of all American women by age and geographic distribution, education level, religion and economic status. Hite admits that she did not conduct a truly scientific survey: "It's 4,500 people. That's enough...
...company's survival rides on ideas like this? Actually, the point of the lesson isn't the product but the process of organizing a project into a "network diagram," says Instructor Ted Urban. "I've seen diagrams with 2,000 activities that would fill up that whole wall. People say, 'Oh, my God!' " But the diagram becomes a road map. You can use it to figure out that a two-week delay at Step 16 is going to cost $100,000. The alternative is to wing it, which can get expensive -- especially if you count the $287 coffee breaks...
...faces growing criticism in the face of America's staggering trade deficits (last year's gap: $170 billion). One group, the Electronics Industries Association, estimates that export controls are costing the U.S. some $9 billion in lost business and 225,000 jobs every year as foreign suppliers rush to fill the orders refused by American companies...
...says he is "very concerned" -- but he feels compelled to match Donaldson. Plante apologized to the public, but won't drop out of the cacophony. None of the three was criticized by network owners or editors. All blame Reagan for not having enough news conferences, interviews and appearances to fill their needs. When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy," with flying elbows, shouts, roars, groans. Reagan could shut it off with a stern finger-pointing. Harry Truman would have cut the bunch down to pips and squeaks with...
While a depression is still remote, the euphoric stock market may be headed for a fall when it wakes up to economic problems like the trade deficit. Everywhere, from bookstores to boardrooms, speculations about the financial future fill the air. -- The former chief of the global satellite network heads for prison. -- A leading specialty retailer, the Gap, takes a sudden spill on Wall Street...