Word: operationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1995, The Coop hired Barnes and Noble to manage its bookselling operation. The company has since managed the bookstore in strategies devised by The Coop's elected board of directors. This arrangement will continue when the bookstore is reopened.
At Harvard, custodial contracts are signed by individual schools and departments which have the option of purchasing Harvard's own Facilities Maintenance Operation (FMO) or hiring an outside contractor.
Apple isn't listening, though: It plans to shut down Power Computing's operation by the end of the year, and is already targeting other clone-makers such as Motorola and UMAX by imposing higher licensing fees for the Mac Operating System. Why so hard on the clones? Acting chairman...
Some of the boiler rooms are specialized, peddling only phony prizes, perhaps, or fraudulent investments or fake charities. Two subspecialty operations are the "recovery room" and the "badge room." The latter is staffed by callers who pretend to be raising money for families of slain police officers, firefighters or other...
Efforts to protect the elderly are picking up. Senior Sleuths, formed in 1989 by the Florida attorney general's office, deploys 550 people in sting operations to gather evidence against scammers. A.A.R.P. has mounted a reverse boiler-room operation in several states. It phones seniors to warn them that their...