Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Milestone Formula. The F-14 controversy highlights anew the gathering crisis in defense industries. The weapons builders are extremely vulnerable to the decline in defense procurements and the nation's growing disenchantment with the military. Grumman, long noted as a well-run company, apparently could not foresee some of its problems. To illustrate the cost imponderables, President Evans recently phoned a friend who is a General Motors officer and asked how much a car comparable to his new $4,200 Chevrolet Impala will cost in 1978, the year that Grumman's F-14 contract is supposed...
...leave my room and go look at the elevator door for a while." Shared bathrooms, too, add to the Sigma Chi atmosphere of tower life. "We wanted to encourage a sense of House communality," said Carlhain, explaining the concept of togetherness which led him to abandon the Quincy formula of private baths...
Honorary degrees are always a well-kept secret at Harvard, but the pattern of previous years usually provides a reliable guide for guessing. One denizen of University Hall, knowledgeable in such matters, has developed what he calls "The Danish Physicist Theory" -a formula for generating a pool of names from which recipients of honoraries might be picked...
...Career opportunities and supporting roles should be open to both men and women but not on any rigid formula," she said...
Although his background in publishing is exceedingly modest, SerVaas believes that "all businesses are alike. Only the product or service varies," he says. "Most businesses do not fail; managers do. Business failures are management failures." His consistent formula for success is to fire the old management, slash the staff and pinch pennies. Once he became president of Curtis in May 1970, SerVaas went to work on Holiday. He shrank it to newsmagazine size, cut its frequency from twelve to nine issues a year, booted out Editor Caskie Stinnett, slashed the staff by two-thirds and started promoting tours. Beurt...