Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organizational Nightmare. Covering every phase of Defense Department operations, the panel found the Pentagon an organizational nightmare in which conflicting loyalties, vaguely defined responsibilities and excessive centralization of authority hamper civilian control and prevent efficient operation. "It's just an amorphous lump with nobody in charge of anything," said Fitzhugh at a news conference. "There is nobody you can point your finger at if anything goes wrong, and there is nobody you can pin a medal on if it goes right, because everything is everybody's business. What is everybody's business is nobody's business...
...very least, "I Am You" will put a lump in your throat; if you've been in love and aren't now, it'll tear you up. Thus it's a good thing that the next cut is the joyously idiotic "Frankford El," an energetic country tune with inane lyrics. "Raspberries," which finishes the album, sounds at first like a lot of wasted energy, but proves, when you're used to it, to be quite interesting...
...done nothing to soothe their nerves. Last week the Government reported that industrial production in April slid for the eighth time in nine months. Personal income in April would have dropped for the first time in more than four years if the Government had not shelled out unusual lump-sum payments to Social Security recipients and federal workers. The payments were necessary to make a 15% Social Security rise and 6% federal pay boost retroactive to the first of the year. Real gross national product fell at an annual rate of 3% in the first quarter, not 1.6% as first...
...borders, pleaded first that no announcement of any kind be made for 100 days, or if that were not possible, for at least another 60 days. Nixon heard the chiefs out at a luncheon meeting in the Pentagon. Then, only a few hours before his telecast, he decided to lump the 50,000 increment and the 100,000 increment together, stretching the deadline from eight months to twelve...
...Janice Bernstein is a disillusioned idealist. "People like myself lived in a dream world that we could have a good, integrated neighborhood," she says. "Now I have to drive my boy to a movie he's walked to all his life. It's wrong to lump them all together. My black neighbors on the street are very nice. Everyone's out with a broom. They want us to stay, but it's heartbreaking because we're going to lose each other. You can't force integration down people's throats, because it hasn...