Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Chairman Wilson makes policy and handles finances out of Manhattan, cost-conscious President Kerr bosses operations around the country. He has assigned accountants to ride herd over every research project to help determine whether expenses exceed potential results. Two weeks ago, with accountants' recommendations, Avco dropped one developmental program, assigned another to a licensee and beefed up a third with more money -all within three days. "Money means nothing to scientists," says one management spokesman, who happily recalls the occasion when one budget watcher snagged a scientist's purchase order for an $8,500 digital ohmmeter, told...
...bail after coming out of hiding to accept arrest. Before the indictment, he had promised to surrender his property to creditors-but, as it turned out, there was precious little property to give. Don Manuel had apparently lost heavily on the stock market recently, and had sold his cattle herd before the closing; even the bank building proved to be heavily mortgaged. Meanwhile, Zapatans were surviving with loans from families, friends and other banks...
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs. Riding herd over 16 sports from track and field to baton twirling, these stern defenders of amateur purity bristle when outsiders presume to promote so much as a friendly basketball game,* have often been described as "neither amateur, nor athletic, nor a union...
...duty in the big house for a week at a time, also without pay. If a sheep strays, or is killed by a fox, the peasant must prove that the loss is "an act of God"; otherwise it is required that he must replace the animal from his own herd or pay in cash...
Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich...