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Word: likes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like a schoolteacher, and he really wanted to become a political science instructor, but he drifted into Dad's Chevy dealership in Hopkins, Minn. So what can one expect from an auto salesman named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Ideas Are All We Have | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Ideas Are All We Have | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Next a thin wire, covered with plastic except at its tip, is passed through the endoscope and positioned in the papilla, the nipple-like opening to the bile duct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Shah's Galling Gallstone | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...about as much as management seemed willing to grant the lesser dancers all together in raises. So bitter were feelings that the company canceled performances, while superstars like Gelsey Kirkland joined the picket line. Last week. Godunov complicated things by abruptly resigning from the A.B.T. before ever dancing a single pas because he had become an issue. Not so, insisted the dancers in a group note urging him to reconsider and requesting "the honor and privilege of being your friends." Balletomanes are awaiting the next act with understandable interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...magical couch. When he rises, he finds himself in a twilit garden, owned by an ominous wizard in a fez. Nothing is quite the same, not even his pet. The fat man's hobby: turning pet dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans too hard on pictures of topiary animals and foreboding dwellings, but his brilliant illustrations resemble snapshots taken by the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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