Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensate for these twin tendencies, Epps decided to overload the Houses at the beginning of this academic year, and then to shuffle people during the first few weeks as students took leaves of absence. If need be, this overload would continue throughout the first term until the spring exodus began. The intended result was a brief period of inconvenience to a few, the eventual accomodation of all, and a body in every bed at Harvard...
...would be easy to pass off this disproportionate overload as the result of bad luck in a game of statistical roulette. But there are more complex, and less acceptable explanations. In some Houses, House secretaries were charged with the task of accomodating more people than they possibly had room for. Whether it was because of poor communication between the Houses and Epps's office, or because of unresponsiveness from Epps's office to the protests of House secretaries when unreasonable numbers of students were assigned to particular Houses, the fact remains that nothing substantial was done to avert an obvious...
...fact that the Treasurer, Financial Vice President, Investment Manager, and Managing Partner of the State Street Investment Corporation are all one person and a member of the Corporation raises not only the familiar problem of overload but doubt about how the rest of the Corporation is to achieve the human distance to monitor his judgment and performance over the full range of his extensive responsibilities," the Andrews Committee wrote...
...took it all?the fame, the stimulus, the occasional overload of ambition and the constant bombardment of visual problems?with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...
Restic is fully aware that he faces an overload of personnel at several positions, which lends itself to unhappy benchwarming. The foremost case of unhappiness last Fall involved quarterbacking, where Rod Foster and Eric Crone traded the job every five minutes for five games, and Rex Blankenship got left somewhere in the shadows...