Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Following the University's budgetary first commandment, "Each tub shall sitteth on its own bottom," the services of OIT consultants are structured on a fee for service basis, with analysts paid between $10 and $25 and hour according to Guy J. Ciannavei '55, manager of the computing center. OIT's predecessor, the computing center, violated this rule, running up a deficit of over $1 million so in 1972 the center went through a shake-up, with the dismissal of several top officers, the disposal of a large IBM computer, and the laying off of about half the center's staff...
Specifically the report criticizes the corporate connections of Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the professor of nutrition who chaired the department from its birth in 1942 until last June, and Jean Mayer, professor of nutrition until his departure this summer to become president of Tufts University in Medford...
...keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, reform-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...mystery. Gwenda, a dim young woman orphaned as a toddler and brought up by relatives in New Zealand, arrives back in Britain with her new husband, Giles. No sooner have they bought a nice house in the town of Dillmouth than Gwenda starts getting attacks of déjà vu and is clutched by a nameless dread while descending the stairs. It is soon clear to the reader, and eventually even to dim Gwenda, that she has been here before. Just as predictably, as a tiny child she saw a murder from the stairs...
...Bliss's style is terse, occasionally leavened by anecdote. Unlike C. Northcote Parkinson and Laurence J. Peter, Bliss's purpose is not amusing originality but utility. He is serious. He refers to his readers directly as "you." He has some sympathy for time wasted, but not much. After all, it's your life that is slipping away so irretrievably...