Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drowned in Data. More than anything else, Raborn made use of a then-obscure management system known as PERT (for Program Evaluation Review Technique). Using PERT, Raborn set precise timetables for each phase of the enormously complicated program, thus assured that everything would mesh without time-wasting gaps or overlaps in the schedule. He papered the walls of his office with flow charts indicating the progress of every major phase of the Polaris program -the missile, the sub, the navigational and fire-control systems, training of the crew, securing of overseas bases, establishment of communications relays. Result: the first Polaris...
...despite the fact that it is often blamed when it should not be, and almost never praised when it should be, there is little doubt that the CIA needs an expert administrative hand at its helm. "If the admiral doesn't apply his PERT to this outfit," one CIA official said last week, "we'll be drowned in data." The agency receives an average of 2,000 top-secret messages every 24 hours from all over the globe. It has a card-file index of more than 50 million documents. Such sophisticated devices as long-range cameras, sensitive...
...Pert and brunette, Mary sends a grin across her face in waves, and her 120 Ibs. are settled into a luscious 36-24-36 configuration that has male viewers sitting upright in their reclining chairs. Yet hardly a real-life wife objects. Instead, they take notes. And when she began delighting TV Hubby Dick Van Dyke by wearing Capri slacks, it helped make Capri slacks the biggest trend in U.S. casual attire...
...thus evaluate a truck's probable life span. North American Aviation used computers to run 5,000 simulated test flights of the XB-70 before the plane ever got off the ground. Many large companies, especially in aerospace construction, are taking a lesson from the Navy's PERT system (for Program Evaluation and Review Technique), which was used to analyze weekly progress reports from 10,000 contractors during the construction of the Polaris...
...thing I like most is experience," says U.S. Teen Queen Luci Baines Johnson, 17. "I don't like to read about things. 1 want to do them." "Getting somewhere and proving yourself are the most important things," says Florence Jeffers, 16, a pert sophomore from Bridgeton, N.J., who is a class vice president ("Round up a posse and vote for Flossie"), a member of seven school clubs, and a prizewinning baker of chocolate-chip cookies and chocolate cake. "I'd like to be a Jack-of-all-trades and a master of one." Carolyn Smith, 17, is taking...