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...Winning Horse." Determined to bring ITT's far-flung subsidiaries and divisions under New York's control, Geneen set up centralized regional marketing and planning staffs, insisted on detailed monthly business reports from the field, eliminated overlap throughout the company. Ten worldwide ITT plants producing semiconductors, for example, were coordinated under New York's aegis for the first time. Because the company's European manufacturing complex was "our winning horse"-ITT was doing poorly in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations-Geneen decided to ride it especially hard, fused it under a single headquarters located in Brussels...
...work as a dental administrator and my work as an endocrinologist did not overlap most of the time," Greep said...
Neither institution will drop any courses to avoid overlap with those offered at the other, both presidents emphasized. They predicted that the program would serve to strengthen weaker areas of their schools when exposed to stronger departments at the other...
...rats to develop first diabetes and then artery disease-a condition remarkably like progressive human diabetes. With animals kept at what Dr. Schroeder considers a normal chromium level, there was virtually no diabetes or atherosclerosis. "Specialists in diabetes and in atherosclerosis," he said, "are beginning to see their disciplines overlap...
This proposal would reduce the importance and autonomy of individual departments, and many will resent it. But the advantages of interdepartmental teaching are substantial. By imposing control from the top, it would permit the faculty to survey the entire program and thereby prevent the overlap which now plagues the curriculum. The report of the Subcommittee on Curriculum Planning should be studied carefully by the faculty and improved where necessary But it will be unfortunate if the debate stretches out for more than a year, making it impossible to institute the system next September...