Word: helming
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...another one of the management upheavals that have practically be come traditional at CBS. It was not the first time that Paley had used his power as the largest single CBS stockholder (6%, now worth about $70 million) to spin the revolving door on a potential successor to the helm of the firm he effectively created 52 years ago. In October 1976, also without warning and also at a time of triumph, Paley sacked Backe's predecessor, Arthur Taylor, the self-confident financial expert Paley had hand-picked as president four years ear lier. Under Taylor, CBS profits...
...year droughts at the Sprints don't come very often for the Crimson; coach Harry Parker has only had one in his 17 years at the Harvard helm. Three year droughts...well, they don't like to talk about such things down at Newell Boat House...
...there remains The Presence: coach/ legend Harry Parker. In his 17 years at the Harvard helm, Parker has gone 68-6, with 11 Sprints titles. Parker-coached teams do not lose. His charges in 1980 dare not--and probably will not--violate this tradition...
...this atmosphere of tension unionists are becoming sensitive to the ways corporations are using the deferred savings of their employees. Shortly before he assumed the AFL-CIO helm, Lane Kirkland told his colleagues that "pension funds have been used by some banks and investment counselors to finance runaway employers to the injury of the very unions and workers who negotiated and created those funds. That has to stop." The question of who has the right to control pension-fund investment is a controversial one with far-reaching implications for the structure of the economy...
Under Editor in Chief Robert Manning, 60, who took the magazine's helm in 1966, the once retiring Atlantic has become more aggressive, topical and visually pleasing. A former Assistant Secretary of State, TIME senior editor and Sunday editor of the old New York Herald Tribune, Manning has also broadened the magazine's coverage of political affairs. A notable example was last year's "The Passionless Presidency," a devastating two-part memoir of the Carter Administration by Washington Editor James Fallows, a former White House speechwriter...