Word: hamil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was not the first such setback for Burns, who combines his executive ability, recognized even by his critics, with rare aggressiveness - sometimes too rare for his employers to stomach. A longtime star in the management-con ulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamil ton, Burns presided over a study of RCA's marketing problems that impressed RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff to the extent that in 1957 he hired Burns as president. The mutual admiration did not last. Under Burns, RCA became deeply involved in the computer making business, and in one year took a $100 million loss...
...Zenith plane, and had captured the pilot. Five minutes later they "discovered" that it was really one of their own planes they had hit by mistake, but by that time New Zenith had accepted the "truth" of their accusation, and was claiming that it had been a Hamil plane with New Zenith markings, flown by a New Zenith defector...
...restricts the possible outcomes of the game: "The situation must be analyzed with respect to what kinds of actions the real countries involved were reasonably open to take. Transania stood for Russia, New Zenith for the U.S., Nordo for India, Inland for North Korea, Outland for South Korea, and Hamil was Red China. Even though there were six teams, each with four policy choices, there actually were only ten or twelve separate possible outcomes...
After the fourth game in the series, we had a general debriefing. Many of us felt that using the same four action choices throughout the month had been very restrictive. Transania was indignant that her proposal to divide Hamil between herself and New Zenith could not be considered because it was not one of their four policy choices. The proscribed actions limited creative thinking, and prevented original solutions to the situation...
...team members were volunteers. Members of New Zenith were Negro students, Outland was the League of Women Voters, Nordo was foreign students; the members of Hamil were ministers of various denominations, and Inland players were students...