Word: jobs
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...publicly after word of negotiations was leaked. Now the Columbia trustees have turned to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University and one of the small number of their preferred choices. At week's end Columbia had reason to be encouraged. Heard had not accepted the job, but he flew to New York and was put up at the president's residence, where he held a series of meetings with Columbia trustees and faculty and student groups...
Thus many of the tactics Heard has used at Vanderbilt could be applied to Columbia with good effect. There is one exception: if the 7,062-man Columbia faculty and staff were to produce written job appraisals as detailed as those submitted to him at Vanderbilt, the assembled report might well be 109,027 pages long and 33 feet high...
...will turn part of the run-down lower West Side into a capital of banking, shipping, customs and other international trade services. The twin 110-story towers will require 190,000 tons of steel. Last week steelmen were debating some unusual details of the bidding for that job. More than that, builders were wondering whether the Port of New York Authority's unorthodox contracts for the supply, fabrication and erection of all that metal may lead to a new way of doing business with steel producers...
Steel executives disclaim any fixing. They argue that the job would have tied up such a large share of the facilities of U.S. Steel or Bethlehem that both companies had to add unusually large contingency costs to their bids. Defenders of the big firms also say that the smaller companies are using much low-cost Japanese steel and that the Port Authority loosened the specifications to enable the smaller firms to bid low. However, an Authority consultant maintains: "The number of tons, the character of the work, the size of the job, and the difficulty of erection were the same...
...Action. Executives of some of the smaller companies admit that a desire to get a piece of the huge job prompted them to submit unusually attractive bids. Charles M. Pigott, president of Pacific Car and Foundry Co., says: "It's a more complex job than we anticipated. We don't expect to make any money." Other companies claim to be satisfied with their profits...