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...one former HSA manager says he left the organization because his independence had been clipped to the point where "nothing could be done without the general manager's approval." The entrepreneurial spirit was "tempered" in the process, he adds. And several current employees, who ask not to be identified, speak of a developing "favoritism" made more possible by the centralization of decision-making. Such complaints crystallized recently around an unprecedented evaluation of each manager at the midpoint of his one-year term, conducted by the president, general manager, and operations manager, and used in awarding bonuses that range from nothing...
William Cunningham, a deputy commissioner in the State Department of Transportation, last month started in the K-School's one-year mid-career Master of Public Administration (MPA) program...
...long is long enough for those who ought to be imprisoned? Minnesota's guidelines provide for sentences as long as those ordinarily given in the past. A one-year stayed sentence for first-offense marijuana possession, 27 years for a second-degree murderer with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota...
...Stanford University team, including Oyer and headed by Dr. Norman Shumway, who had pioneered the first heart transplant in the U.S. twelve years earlier. The team has now done 36 transplants using cyclosporine, and although Oyer cautions, "It's too early to tell," the preliminary one-year survival rate has risen from 65% in the 1970s to 79%. One of the recent successes at Stanford is Machinist William Sweet, 44, of Rochester, who had a heart transplant in April, along with cyclosporine treatment. Says Sweet: "I feel great. I'm waiting to go home...
...addition, the Reagan Administration found itself in the awkward position of pressing for the sanctions in the same week that it authorized negotiations for a one-year extension of the agreement to export grain to the Soviet Union. The fact that the proposal was merely for an extension, rather than a new long-term agreement, did not impress the Europeans. Said Italy's Minister of Industry Giovanni Marcora: "We are expected to sacrifice our interests so that the U.S. does not sacrifice...