Word: furlough
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...Price last saw Richard Nixon at the beginning of November, when the former speechwriter took a two-week-long furlough from the institute to work with the former president on the memoirs once again at La Casa Pacifica, the Nixons' San Clemente estate. In contrasting the Nixon of three weeks ago with the Nixon of the White House years, Price says Nixon's outlook is more mellowed, more reflective...
...employees, the attraction of a regular, weekly three-day furlough from the salt mines is obvious enough, but some companies have found that the four-day week also brings certain problems. McDonald's Corp., which since 1969 has closed up shop every summertime Friday at 1 p.m. in all its administrative offices around the country, finds that while the workers love it, business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus...
...bankruptcy. Chrysler's huge inventories of unsold cars were reduced dramatically by a desperate, carnival-style rebate scheme that was reluctantly picked up by competitors. A furious cost-cutting program resulted in layoffs of 20,000 salaried employees, who joined an army of assembly-line workers already on furlough. Still, the losses mounted, and last summer Lynn Townsend resigned after nine years as chairman. In October, he was succeeded by John Riccardo, 51, an accountant by training...
After serving eleven years, MacEwen was given a three-day furlough. "I visited some places I thought I was familiar with, but they had changed so much that when I got out of my car, I was frightened. I couldn't stay. Then in my mother's house, I was having what I thought was a normal conversation, and it seemed like the room got smaller and smaller and I was suffocating...
...neither the sense of childlike innocence nor the wonder of revisiting a durable fable is lost. Stephanie Mills, wistful and staunch as Dorothy, sings like an angel on furlough. Her companions, the Scarecrow (Hinton Battle), the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross) and the Tin Woodman (Tiger Haynes) are equally winning and bring complete conviction to their roles...