Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone from oil executives to Jimmy Carter and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, all of whom have urged the public to curb its driving and start conserving fuel. No one has paid much attention, and people seem instead to grow more convinced by the day that the shortages are part of a price-gouging hoax perpetrated...
...most visible part of the Carlson empire is the Radisson Hotel Group, which last year generated revenues of $90 million. There are 19 hotels with a total of 7,139 rooms, and Carlson hopes to expand by 1,000 rooms a year. He opened a resort hotel a year ago in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Radisson Oasis, built near the Pyramids outside Cairo, will be finished by the end of 1979. Farther afield, Carlson is negotiating with the Chinese to build a hotel in Peking. He has a particularly active period of growth planned for two recently acquired restaurant chains...
...employees, Carlson is part saint, part demon. He works tirelessly, and expects nothing less from subordinates. His executive row is nicknamed Ulcer Alley. Managers must meet monthly profits targets or file "deviation reports" explaining how and why they were unable to do so. An annual four-day show-and-tell fiesta at the sprawling company lodge at Minnesuing Acres near Superior, Wis., also spurs executive performance. Corporate officers are required to recount how they have or have not met their sales goals of the year. Recalls a former employee: "Carlson would chew you out for three hours straight while others...
...longer be useful as an alarm to spur escape. So the pain is turned off and replaced by a kind of blissful surrender. Thomas writes: "If I had to design an ecosystem in which creatures had to live off each other and in which dying was an indispensable part of living, I couldn't think of a better way to manage...
...black men and black women." Many regard her account of the great biracial crusade of the 1960s as a historical distortion, and as Sociologist Robert Staples of the University of California at San Francisco insists, "a slur on everything that went on in the movement and everyone who took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black men and women that are exacerbated by a numbers game-there are 1 million more black women than men. But they insist that the real trouble is rooted in lingering hostilities between blacks and whites: the high jobless rate among black...