Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wages, Westinghouse's original offer of five months ago was upped only slightly, from a minimum increase of 23½? spread over the next five years to a round 25?. The give-and-take process reduced the time-study issue-biggest stumbling block in the negotiations-to hash. The I.U.E. conceded management's right to make time studies on nonproduction workers in principle, while Westinghouse agreed to restrict them in practice. Westinghouse also agreed to submit any disputes resulting from the studies to arbitrators, a concession it formerly flatly refused...
Sharp Whistle. A wealthy Chicago textile manufacturer, Mansure, 54, had run GSA since May 1953. In the process he had built a reputation as a money-saving, detail man. So meticulous that he separates the meat from the potatoes when eating beef hash, he saved paper clips, and put three-minute egg timers on subordinates' desks to shorten telephone calls. But Mansure's fine eye for housekeeping details (which won the praise of the Hoover Commission) was not always matched by a clear view of the bigger picture. He seemed to have one standard for office efficiency...
...Quail Hash...
...spend time hunting quail, would take time to prepare "quail hash, the President's favorite dish" [Oct. 31]. Can you come up with the recipe? We would enjoy...
...tremulo throughout the whole play, she manages to keep it from being tiresome. With her grandmother and her two muzhik, admirers she can even be exciting, while her portrayal of a psychotic soul returning to normality seems accurate, wherever it is allowed to peep through the rest of the hash in the play...