Word: operationalize
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Automakers are scrambling for more small and fuel-efficient cars and hybrids as sales of once popular trucks and sport utility vehicles evaporate under the weight of rising fuel prices. "This was a watershed month," says Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.'s group executive for marketing and sales, following news...
Whipple created Operation Moonwatch in 1956 to arm people all over the world, from high school students to housewives, with small telescopes and stopwatches, to create teams of novice stargazers to monitor the skies for satellites.
“Depending on how this whole operation is received, we may eventually order more word processors and experiment with additional projects such as personal computers,” Mark van Baalen, an official in the office for information services and technology, said at the time.
But despite these stated positive intentions, within the agency’s first year of operation, student entrepreneurs, student council members, and others at Harvard were already questioning how much these aims were being upheld and whether the agency was living up to its charter.
The most serious drawback in the outlined operation is the monopoly, or group of monopolies that would be created. Gregory B. Stone ‘58, undergraduate president, has made it clear that the Agency does not expect the University to issue solicitation permits to two competing typewriter agents, or...