Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keedick and Columbia-charge from $100 to $1,500 per lecturer, from which they take 30%-40% (out of his remainder the speaker is expected to pay his own expenses). In the top bracket are Funnymen Cerf and Walter Slezak, as well as Pundits Stewart Alsop and C. Northcote Parkinson. "Price is based mainly on the name, personality and availability of a celebrity-and of course on his tax bracket," says Robert Keedick of the Keedick Lecture Bureau. "On the other hand, someone who has a message to sell, like Billy Graham, will go for a lot less...
...deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...
Even before its official opening, its 50 beds were filled with patients suffering from skull fractures, Parkinson's disease, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and assorted other examples of the 200 human ills loosely classed as neurological. It had already undertaken its first operation, for a temporal-lobe defect causing epilepsy. The 13-member team in the operating room included an electronics engineer, a neurophysiologist, a neuroanesthesiologist, an electroencephalographer, and a behavioral psychologist...
...Laws and Outlaws, Parkinson...
King once again contended himself with sending halfback Spangenberg and Parkinson in for thrusts over the tackle and guard positions. He finally finished the job himself with a four yard run around left end for the six points. Ticking like a machine, Wellstead gained yet another conversion making...