Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students were told to go upstairs to the Faculty Room, where Deans Dunlop and May met them in a few minutes. After introductions, Dunlop asked Carroll S. Dorgan '71-who was holding the tape recorder- "Is that an instrument that...
...fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed the C-119 "Flying Boxcar" transport. At his death, he was one of the largest stockholders in IBM and chairman of both Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. and Fairchild Hiller Corp...
...skill whose fingers race across the keyboard like a riptide. Suddenly his face turns soulful, as if he were attempting to hang each note in the air like a snowflake. With a brisk, dryly ironic flourish he brings the composition to its close. But through the entire piece, the instrument has been soundless...
Johnson put his station attendants into blue-and-gold uniforms, standardized the instrument panels of his varying kinds of planes and set a rate structure that is not far off from that of a car-rental firm. The most inexpensive plane, a Cessna 150, rents for $13 a day and 13? a mile. For traveling businessmen who cannot fly themselves, Johnson will put on a pilot for another 5? a mile. To drum up business, Lease-A-Plane mails its own credit cards to all licensed pilots in each station's area...
...founder," writes Psychologist Harry Levinson in the March-April issue of the Harvard Business Review, "the business is an instrument, an extension of himself. So he has great difficulty giving up his instrument, his source of social power." Levinson, a visiting professor of psychology at the Harvard Business School, says that this intense ego involvement makes it hard for the patriarch to delegate responsibility and almost impossible for him to step down. Many sons of self-made titans, he warns, have to cope with long hours, low pay and an agonizing wait for the old man's retirement...