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...right out of Star Trek, allows workers to call him "Skip" and describes his position as "team member." He and the union boss (who goes by "Dick") have a strange, collegial relationship. As for the rank and file, they don't punch a time clock and they get to handpick the people they work alongside. During off-hours they run around an outdoor obstacle course and engage in group hugging sessions. If they develop a bad attitude, they are paid to spend a day thinking about what's bothering them. That's not all: a TV commercial for this multibillion...
Kennedy School observers predict that the new dean will come from within the school's ranks, and most say that Academic Dean Albert Carnesale is the odds-on favorite for the job. However, Bok, who will handpick Allison's successor without the aid of a search committee, has been closemouthed about who will...
...first time, rewrite the constitution--but once again, not until after 1988. The opposition response: if the 1988 presidential elections come under the current constitution, which leaves the voting to an electoral college likely to be dominated by members sympathetic to Chun's party, Chun will be able to handpick a successor. Chun replied that the President elected in 1988 would vow to hold elections again, in 1989, under the new rules...
...preliminary results mean the progressives, who have controlled the city committee since 1972, will continue to handpick new members of the city's election commission...
Nixon could use this opportunity to try to handpick his own 1976 successor, but some political analysts predict he will choose a figure who is "above politic," and who would exit from the political arena at the end of Nixon's terms...