Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 report comments...
...time-cockroaches, a panther, a G.I. doll on skis, a Bobby Kennedy headline, a crucified Lyndon Johnson. The impulse of Fahlstrom's work seems to be a fascination with the arbitrary, gratuitous way in which events impinge on us through mass media. He is a virtuoso of information-overload. The images are presented as so much raw material; they can be shifted and combined at will by the spectator, and in playing with the cutouts, one is drawn into a mysterious game, devoid of rules, open-ended and without any final solution...
Epps emphasized that he would like to finish the whole process by the beginning of next term. He said that because of the overload of sophomores at Mather House, they would get first preference in moving to rooms vacated by returning Harvard men. "After we're done with all of this, we'll have to see whats left of the Mather problems,'" Epps said...
...Julty may never get them working for Moneysworth. Sitting in his Manhattan office behind a door marked DANGER!! HIGH VOLTAGE!! Ginzburg twits the techniques of the nation's leading consumer publication. "Consumer Reports sometimes leaves the reader more confused than when he started," he said. "They overload him with conflicting facts. They still leave the choice to the reader. We don't-we make...
...driver's lonely perch high above the highway gives him a special perspective; he can spot traffic patterns developing ahead more readily than the car-bound motorist. He scorns the tourists who dart in and out of traffic. Independent trucking operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision...