Word: quos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company, he is happy to say, has no organization charts, no procedure manuals. He encourages managers to take risks, even make mistakes; they will learn from them. Says he: "We don't want good administrators, because that implies efficient operation of the status quo." He advises junior executives and foremen: "We, top management, will set standards. It is up to you to decide how to get things done...
THESE ANALYSES and proposals by Alperovitz and other Cactus Leftists are eminently reasonable and practical; yet, because they would represent fundamental change in the status quo, the flight to institute them will be Sisyphean...
...cannot be surprised, surely, that the United States continually vetoes United Nations economic sanctions against South Africa, while many of America's largest corporations have a vested interest in the status quo, nor can we expect that policy to change until those companies have withdrawn. Yet one need only look at the case of Rhodesia to see the effectiveness of such sanctions. I do not mean to suggest that all is now well in Rhodesia, but since the imposition of economic sanctions, there has been progress towards majority rule that would have been unimaginable earlier. South Africa is a different...
...witty sage who first said this probably did so after watching the Harvard women's tennis team status-quo itself through last season...
...away from the positive power of demonstrations is up to the quality of students in the Student Assembly. If the activists use this as their vehicle, it can be very effective...Student activists must make equal use of the assembly or it could become a buffer for the status-quo...