Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a graduate-school thesis. At Harvard Business School in the early 1950s, Diebold helped prepare a report on the new science of automating factories. He used it as the basis for a book, Automation, which helped popularize both the word and the author. Then he set up a firm in the attic of his father's house in Weehawken, NJ. Ultimately Engineer Diebold hired businessmen and technicians to work for him while he supervised his firm's growth and actively promoted his ideas and himself. He is currently selling advice to Lockheed, Du Pont, Agfa, Xerox...
...twelve hours at the office, then spend their nights and weekends pondering reports or burning up the long-distance lines. Practically everything that they do is somehow devoted to building the business. Says Fletcher Jones, 34, of Los Angeles, who in 1959 saw a need for a firm to analyze and program problems for computers to solve, started his Computer Sciences Co. and is now worth $20 million: "Money allows me to do some of the things I want to do. Still, I don't have time to do most of them-travel, for example-so really the money...
...Mark Novitch, assistant physician to the UHS, who headed the investigation, said, "My firm impression is that there are variabilities, but not gross inequities in the cost of drugs in and out of the Square." He based his opinion on raw data gathered last spring which he has submitted for statistical analysis. A conclusive report, he said, should be ready within the week...
...both Erhardt and Miss Hawkins play their roles in a way consistent with Erhardt's interpretation. And like the rest of the cast, they managed to ground Shavian moralizing and epigrams on a firm base of Shavian entertainment...
...study endorsed by the committee was co-sponsored by the United Community Services and the Massachusetts Committee on Children, two independent organizations who work with welfare recipients. Begun last March, the study was conducted by the National Study Service, a research firm from New York...