Word: reprimands
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...continuing to investigate, it had been unable to document accusations, made by two Capitol Hill pages, of sexual liaisons between Congressmen and their teen-age gofers during 1981 and 1982. Washington greeted the finding with understandable relief-prematurely. Last week the Ethics Committee recommended that the full House "reprimand" two Representatives, Democrat Gerry Studds of Massachusetts and Republican Daniel Crane of Illinois, for having had sex with pages in 1973 and 1980, respectively...
...catch the employee doing something right," he administers Part 2, One Minute Praising: he says something good fast. The authors advise the boss to put an arm around the employee or touch the person in some other way to convey personal affection. During a One Minute Reprimand, the manager is supposed to explain how hurt and frustrated he is by the employee's poor performance...
...Ivan Pavlov. While such tactics seem to work well on dogs, pigeons and rats, they might not succeed in the office. The first time a boss puts his arm around an employee he is trying to praise, he might find himself on the receiving end of a One Second Reprimand: a punch in the nose...
...frame. He had a deep terror, which he transmuted superbly into film, of policemen and jails. Making a good story of it, he said that this fear originated when, at the age of six, "I did something that my father considered worthy of reprimand. He sent me to the local police station with a note. The officer on duty read it and locked me in a jail cell for five minutes, saying, 'This is what we do to naughty boys.' " Which, he would say in his most ominous tone, was what he wanted to have carved...
...graft it onto an elaborate Pentagon condemnation of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky plan. A month after the Swiss mountainside tête-à-tête, Nitze and Rostow were chastised by Clark in a memo to Shultz for exceeding their negotiating authority. Clark denies that the memo was a reprimand, but officials who have seen it insist otherwise...