Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aronson and some bemused colleagues report in the current Journal of Applied Psychology that they have now tested Parkinson's principle under laboratory conditions, with the same discouraging results. "Not only does a piece of work expand to fill the time available," Aronson notes, "but once it has expanded it continues to require more time." He hopes that his explorations of human work habits may explain why and how people fall prey to procrastination. Meantime, he has started giving himself firm three-hour deadlines to prepare his lectures...
Bankers 'are quick to say that the net operating earnings they report are not quite the same as ordinary corporate earnings. "N.O.E." include profits from lending but do not include defaulted loans or losses on securities investments, which most banks have suffered this year. Under any circumstances, N.O.E. figures are somewhat misleading; they tend to overstate profits during times when securities markets are falling-and understate profits when markets are rising. As a result, accounting groups are urging banks to report straight net income as corporations do. Whether they do or not, bank operating earnings are likely to remain...
...years old, with important responsibilities. But he worries constantly about whether he is equal to the job. More often than not, a routine phone call from a superior sets off a sudden, stabbing pain in his chest. Company doctors are seriously concerned about his health. Constant tension, they report, brings on the pains of angina pectoris, which often precede a heart attack...
...last annual report to the governor states that during the 1968 fiscal year the division "conducted 409 investigations relative to complaints on subversive activities." and "performed 4034 security name checks...
...annual report further states that, "A separate file has been made of peace groups, civil rightists, and other such groups where due to their enthusiasm, they might have a tendency to adopt or show a policy of advocating the commission of acts of force or violence...