Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, the Crimson was flat-out bullied on face-offs, winning possession only about a third of the time. Virginia had some face-off men for hire who could easily play in the NFL; face-offs can sometimes make or break a team...
...coincidence that these same companies have been able to embrace the leading management trends of the past decade: flat organizations; bottom-up management; empowerment; customer-focused, just-in-time manufacturing, and total quality. These philosophies demand a flexible and dedicated work force not locked in battle with management. As a CEO put it, "This is not do-good stuff. This is the way you make money...
...world, a U.S. ban will have scant practical effect. The Geneva conference offered little hope. Because of opposition by countries like Russia and China, which have stockpiled tens of millions of mines, the conference stopped well short of calling for an outright prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There is a nine-year grace period...
...doing that stuff since childhood. He was brought up on a farm in the Northwest, near Fairfield, Washington. He could fix anything, combine anything, so that it worked. But as an artist he was entirely self-taught, and he could neither draw well nor paint convincingly on a flat surface...
DIED. STIRLING SILLIPHANT, 78, TV and film writer; in Bangkok. His screenplays ranged from the socially conscious Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night to the haunting fable Charly to the flat-out thriller The Poseidon Adventure...