Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simon's ideas punch holes in the traditional theory that corporations seek to achieve the very maximum profits and, in striving toward this goal, automatically adjust to changing circumstances. In the modern corporation, he contends, decision making is diffuse, spreading through many departments and individuals, not always harmoniously...
...partying lasts for six weeks, and is followed by a "moratorium" on punching activity. The selections are made. "It's simply not true that they don't punch or won't accept people from a certain background--that's just not true anymore. They won't exclude anyone they like," a punchee said...
...Times practice before the strike, an early edition of this week's paper will be whisked by special courier to the Manhattan apartment of Publisher Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger. He can hardly help noticing the typographical error in the paper's logo: Not The New York Times. Exactly who is responsible for this outrageous, cunningly crafted parody? Among those reputed to have laid a pencil to the project are Michael Arlen, Carl Bernstein, Nora Ephron, Frances Fitz-Gerald, Jerzy Kosinski, George and Freddy Plimpton, Terry Southern and about three or four dozen other wordsmiths from leading publishing firms...
...team is their double-identity. It is the only event in town which can take them out of time, back to the hot, dusty days spent on weedy, glass-splintered sandlots--even to an America where people never had to punch in or punch out for lunch...
...front, Amadjian teamed with Jenny Kane to provide Harvard's offensive punch...