Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Process. Most of the anger swirls about a demonstration district in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
...York School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan called the action illegal. Many outraged parents kept their children out of class, and equally irate teachers walked out in support of their colleagues. The teachers were stoutly backed by U.F.T. President Albert Shanker, who denounced the dismissals as a denial of "due process...
...increasing affluence, the rich not only get richer but become more jaded in the process. And yet the high life somehow must go on. The challenge is to create an event so special, so sumptuous, so unequaled that it cannot be missed. Everybody must talk about it for months, charter yachts, planes and limousines, book hairdressers, order new ball gowns, do and dare anything just to be there. No matter how boring it is once they get there, just having their names on the guest list automatically makes them Beautiful People...
Sometimes the biggest losers in the game of corporate musical chairs are those companies doing the hiring. By finding room at the top for outsiders, they risk discomfiting homegrown executives who are passed over in the process. Says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston: "Much depends on who you bring in. If the man has stature that everybody recognizes, you have no problem...
...just plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight of the nine boaters drowned. All nine might have been saved if they had only thought to carry life jackets...