Word: ravenswood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employees have increased output at Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T, among many other firms. At Motorola, portable beepers for paging doctors and others are no longer assembled on lines; one worker gets the satisfaction of putting the whole unit together. At Kaiser Aluminum's plant in Ravenswood, W. Va., maintenance costs and tardiness fell after the company removed time clocks and permitted workers to supervise themselves and decide what machines to service and when...
...dandy performance, if I do say so myself," says Bender, whose Emmy extracurricular achievements include writing last year's Emmy Award-winning television documentary, Leopold Stokowski. "I am still not sure whether the good folk of Ravenswood were applauding my baton work care. A fireworks display that accompanied it, and I don't care. A good hand is a good hand...
...shoulder. On the far shore a car pulled up, waited, drove away; the ferry was not running tonight. Then, from the barge floating a few feet out in the rippling Ohio River, the music danced deliciously across the water. This was the big day of the year in Ravenswood, W. Va. (pop. 4,500), and almost everybody was on hand to enjoy...
...Visual Delights. At Ravenswood last week, Boudreau unveiled yet another newly commissioned work, Report, by an up-and-coming Czechoslovak composer named Lubos Fiser (pronounced Fish-er). Report is a mesmerizing symphonic tattoo in which marchlike rhythms blend effortlessly with geometric splashes of sound. It was hardly a hit with the audience, though. "That doesn't matter," says Boudreau. "As long as they're sitting there, they're absorbing it, getting used to the sound of today." The rapt attention now given "favorites" by Penderecki and Badings seems proof enough of that...