Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical quiz turned out to be a snap for Mahosky, who, with the help of five academy friends, set out to rig the odds in his favor. They chipped in a total of $100, paid a printer to run off 75,000 copies of Mahosky's entry, and deposited them at WBKZ...
...accepted that if Rhodesia wants to become a new state on the principle of one-man, one-vote, we won't object to it because we aren't poking our noses into the affairs of Rhodesia. We never prescribe to Rhodesia what she should do. We help to create peaceful conditions in which they can come to terms with other international states who want us to cooperate...
...American public: the economy. So far, they are producing no ideas that seem much different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading challengers' economic plans...
Putting back some humanity can also help efficiency. After only 90 days on the job, every new headquarters employee at Gelco has to be comprehensively interviewed: How do you like what you are doing? What can we do to make your job better? Says Bud Grossman: "We are involving our employees in a lot more decision making. If we can push decision making down to the lowest level, we will do better." And it may well be that the whole economy will do better...
...tall?-there can be no more elegant and reassuring self-help book than Karla Kuskin's Herbert Hated Being Small (Houghton Mifflin; $6.95). Herbert gauges his mini-stature by standing next to his parents, always a mistake. Depressed, he sets out on his own. So does Philomel, who feels humongous next to her little family. But when boy and girl meet in the woods, they discover that they are the same size. Everything is relative, observes this cascade of wise rhymes. Einstein would have been pleased...