Word: prune
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...Soyuz 7, in 1969), was an idol of teen-age Russian girls because of his rugged good looks. Russian TV viewers also watched an impromptu birthday party staged for Patsayev, who turned 38 during the flight. Instead of pouring the customary vodka, his comrades toasted him with tubes of prune paste. Yet as the mission continued uneventfully day after day-first past the American endurance mark of 13 days set by Gemini 7 in 1965, then past the Soviets' own record of nearly 18 days established by Soyuz 9 last year-the initial excitement turned into boredom...
...costs to the nation for graduate education are now enormously greater than undergraduate costs. Might it not be advisable to prune the specialist superstructure and use the money to expand community colleges? Would not clearer priorities dictate improving urban public schools...
...outplacement specialists see nothing but growth ahead for their business. The increasingly competitive economic climate, they insist, will lead more and more businesses to prune their executive ranks, while expanding firms will continue to seek experienced men. Besides, the outplacers do more than salve the conscience of the boss who sends a dismissed subordinate to them; they also may save him money. Hubbard cites the case of a company that offered to continue the $40,000 salary of a fired executive for a year while he looked for another job. After going through THinc.'s program, the executive quickly...
...holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell had two separate headquarters in Britain and The Netherlands. A decade ago, with help from the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., it started to prune and unify management. Now it has what one senior officer calls "a single head office with a wide, watery corridor between the wings...
Mitchell's department was just as insensitive in selecting the Supreme Court nominees. Mitchell originally assigned his deputy, Richard Kleindienst, to compile a list of some 150 potential Justices. Applying Nixon's guidelines, he reduced the list to about 30 names. Mitchell then helped prune it to just five, including Burger, Haynsworth and Carswell. He decided that Burger was best and recommended him for Chief Justice. When Fortas resigned, Mitchell asked another assistant, William Rehnquist, to study Haynsworth's legal record. Since Fortas had been tainted by his financial interests, the FBI carefully probed Haynsworth's business background. It turned...