Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoidance of judgment comes when an editor selects only Op-Ed columnists who share the philosophies expressed on his editorial page. This attempt at monolithism disserves both the newspaper and its readers, especially when-as is increasingly true-the newspaper has little or no local competition...
...feel morally obligated to offer our readers the widest possible spectrum of Op-Ed opinions. How else is the clash of ideas so vital to public discussion and an informed electorate to occur...
...trust in Congress and the presidency are themselves suffering from the current animus toward Washington-knows-best. More charitably, editors don't think that any Washington columnist, no matter how energetic and wise, can be knowledgeable and reflective on important matters three times a week. So for their Op-Ed pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world is more complex, the issues are more varied. Mark Sullivan used to write...
...profits and betting on the future of the U.S. Not since British loans helped finance the building of the nation's canals and railroads in the 19th century has the U.S. displayed a more magnetic attraction to overseas investors. Foreign money from almost everywhere is flooding into co-op apartments in Manhattan and Miami condominiums, sprawling petrochemical complexes in Houston and quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description...
...Op Denmark is pioneering the decruitment program, and a survey of 1,285 Danish managers over 50 showed that 70% preferred downgrading to retirement. Knud Overø, 56, the chief executive of another Danish firm, Ferrosan, which manufactures Pharmaceuticals, moved down to work half time in long-term planning. With decruitment, some people expect to work past 80. But, warns Ebbe Groes, 66, the former chief of Co-Op Denmark, who stepped aside last year and now helps represent the company in its overseas affairs, "if you give the former top executive any authority over his successor, the system will...