Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will become evident once all four of the departments' lieutenants have completed the course. "We'll have a better understanding of the goals of the department," he says, adding this should increase communication between the different branches of the department, and facilitate the upward input into the decision-making process. Chafin would agree. "This office has been very open to suggestions and ideas from the entire complement of personnel and has instituted programmatic changes based upon some input," Chafin says, citing the initiation of monthly plenary staff meetings, new police cruisers with more effective equipment and the influence of dispatchers...
...tight spot--a role that U.S. banks have played for far too long in South Africa. The University claims to oppose such behavior by banks--yet now we find members of the Corporation trying to justify the banks' role and directly contradicting their own decision in the process. Yes, Harvard favors the elimination of apartheid--but only if it is done in a business-like manner, over a reasonable period of time...
...safety regulations, foreign imports have to face lengthy and expensive testing procedures. Until very recently, even the smallest error gave minor bureaucrats an excuse to order the whole thing redone. Certification, laments John Quick, vice president in charge of GM's Asia-Pacific operations, is "a long, involved process that can take up to eight months" and requires "carloads of papers...
...long negotiations with the kitchen workers, the University continued its tactical marriage of legal expertise and threat. Harvard negotiators resolutely refused to improve the kitchen workers' benefits package because the University is conducting a benefits review. More talk, more committee meetings, more study, a long, drawn-out process that guarantees nothing to the worker. When the union membership refused to ratify the contract without a compromise on benefits and openly expressed a lack of faith in University promises, Edward W. Powers, Harvard's chief labor negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly...
...plowing. For millennia, farmers have turned over the land with plows before tilling it, cultivating it and putting in seed. Now, machines are available that combine several operations in a process called minimum tillage. One machine, on which Garst and a partner hold the patent, cuts a V-shaped furrow in unplowed land and simultaneously drops in seed. Says Garst: "In a sense, we have gone back to the pointed stick...