Word: paperworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, the recommendations appear designed primarily to simplify the system, to remove much of the paperwork and time presently required of the Masters. It is possible to sympathize with the motives behind these proposals, but their adoption would lead to the loss of some of the most valuable elements of the present Houses...
...frequently begins at 5:30 a.m. in a duck blind near his St. Louis home, and he has been known to spend two hours shooting before he drives to the office. Even in a blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year-old Pet, which his grandfather founded. Both...
...work day with an early-morning run, then punches the timeclock at ASEA!s, Vasteras headquarters just like other employees. He is on the move at least half the time keeping up with work in ASEA's 18 plants in Sweden and six abroad. He takes home paperwork but does not like to. "The crucial problem for today's businessman," he says, "is to find the time to think, and I try to reserve time for thinking...
Thunderous Backfire. This strange something-for-nothing situation arose out of a legal tangle over interest rates. Nebraska has an old law setting 9%* a year as the maximum permissible interest on a loan. But added risks and extra paperwork make installment loans unprofitable at 9%. Most states with interest-rate limitations also have special laws permitting higher percentages on installment purchases. Nebraska merchants and lenders lobbied for such a law, and in 1959 they got one. Without repealing the 9% overall limit, the legislature passed an installment-sale statute allowing true yearly interest rates as high...
...used wherever possible. TV, in place of watchmen, guards exits from some Hilton hotels to prevent pilferage (objects in rooms are made purposely unwieldy for the same reason), and silverware is often cleaned ultrasonically. Behind the scenes at the New York Hilton a computer billing system hums quietly, eliminating paperwork by taking every charge directly from cash registers all over the hotel and adding them to each guest's bill...