Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's largest private employer, Co-Op Denmark, which runs department stores and supermarkets (sales: $1.9 billion), has started a policy of freezing promotions of top managers after age 50 and decruiting them at 60. Already more than 40 store managers have moved down and taken pay cuts of one-third to one-half: Tage Nielsen, 56, now works as an office clerk; Edmond Glud, 64, switched to the mail department; Sigvald Bangsager, 62, cuts a fine figure as a security guard. Says he: "You have to know when your time is up, when you're burned...
...only of Italy as the place where the pseudo anarchists strike with bolder and bolder feats or abductions. We have a vague notion that Italy has the monopoly on banditry−bandit being of Italian origin−and that kidnaping is as much part of the Italian scene as opéra bouffe. (The great master of English opéra bouffe, W.S. Gilbert, was kidnaped as a baby in Naples−an event both Neapolitan and Gilbertian.) And it is true that it has traditionally been hard to think of Italy as tranquil, law-abiding, prepared to solve...
...Harvard colleagues in 1968. As one of Dean Ebert's associate deans at Harvard Medical School in that era, I helped the dean promote the national adoption by all medical schools of the Educational Opportunity Bank, one of the precursors of Dr. Silber's proposal. Since the Ed Op Bank had seemed too bold for universities, the medical schools suggested it on a pilot scale. The plan foundered not because it was fiscally unsound but because universities and parents somehow were coping with pre-inflation tuitions and change was politically unpopular...
Judges, after years of exposure to those advertisements on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, were not about to let local clamor interfere with the congressional mandate for nuclear power. No matter that the people of Seabrook voted the plant down twice--the referenda, after all, were non-binding...
...matter of liberty. The important decisions are now being made by the people who write the advertisements on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. Instead, an informed public should be making those decisions...