Word: planning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's recently announced decision to construct a parking lot in front of Lowell House for motorcycles, motorscooters, and motorbikes seems like an ill-conceived policy rather than a sensible plan that considers student welfare...
...Gaulle's pet plan, which is reminiscent of the arrangement between Puerto Rico and the United States, seems a wise and a moderate one. On the one hand, Algeria is disastrously unready for complete independence. It has no real economy of its own and no responsible leaders to give it political direction. On the other hand all but a few extremists in France have realized that the war must end and that in order to maintain its vital interests France must give up some interests that are less important. De Gaulle's solution, in short, is one that should appeal...
...Farmers must sell their eggs at dictated prices to INRA, which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling...
...brought in more than a dozen top executives, plucking them away from such firms as Revlon, Macy's and Marshall Field with generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores...
...face of terror and degradation, Pasternak sees history as "the passing storm," the title of his latest poem, sent to Translator Kayden in manuscript. In it he voices anew his enduring scorn for the "New Man in the wagon of his Plan," and his hope for humanity's future...