Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEWSPAPER obituaries for Sir John Barbirolli this summer were condescending. Barbirolli was unfashionable, unpopular, and vaguely old fashioned. The modern critics sneered at his approach to music, his method of conducting, his choice of composers. To the musical establishment, he was the archetype of the out-person...
WITH renewed urgency, governments and airlines the world over sought last week to improve and refine their techniques for thwarting skyjacking. The most drastic method of protecting aircraft involves the use of armed guards. Until now, governments, airlines and pilots' associations have all generally objected to such guards on planes because they fear the consequences of a gun fight or explosion in midair. But contrary to popular myth, a pressurized cabin will not explode if punctured by one bullet or even by several; it will simply develop a slow leak. More important is the danger that passengers or crew...
...Political Philosophy: Marxism is a scientific method for interpreting history and the economic and social facts of the world. It is not a prescription for making a government. The Chilean Socialist Party has never been attached to any international association. I have read Marx, Engels and Lenin, but I have also read Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington. Kennedy's Inaugural Address was one of the best pieces of oratory I have ever read...
...study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade; they won five National Football...
...hated most is firing fellow executives. It is a task that top managements increasingly face as the business downturn and profit squeeze make superfluous executives an insupportable luxury. In July, unemployment among professional and managerial employees rose to 394,000-up 74% from a year earlier. Now, though, a method has been developed to take some of the sting and embarrassment out of executive firing. Instead of simply bouncing a subordinate, the boss can send him to a firm that specializes in helping unwanted executives to find new jobs. The practitioners have even coined a euphemistic description for the process...