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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hierarchy. It will have far more impact on workers' daily lives and thus perhaps on productivity and the company's financial health, than Fraser's appointment to the board of directors ever will. A committee structure grafted on traditional factory floor organization will not attack the core problem--a rigid hierarchy of command in which workers are treated like children--told exactly what to do, how to do it, and how fast. Such treatment only destroys worker motivation and cripples productivity...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Blue Collars on the Board | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Also, the commission recommends that no new plants be placed near large population centers. NRC has stopped approving sites near metropolitan areas, though it has not specified any rigid distance requirements. Of the 100 U.S. sites where nuclear plants are operating or under construction, only ten are within ten miles of 100,000 or more residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...majority to keep the opinion away from the then senior Justice, William O. Douglas. The most liberal member of the court, Douglas wanted to base the decision on a broad constitutional right to privacy. Burger preferred a more narrowly drawn opinion, one that would invite the states to replace rigid with less restrictive abortion laws. As a furious Douglas accused Burger of abusing the assigning power, the Chief gave the opinion to Blackmun, a Justice who had voted so often with Burger that he was nicknamed "Hip Pocket Harry'' by the clerks; indeed, Burger and Blackmun, former schoolmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...search for the strongest, the most all-abiding rules.'' He believed that only in ''unprecedented shackles'' could ''complete freedom'' be found. He pursued the search in his lifelong veneration of Schoenberg, in his ardent religiosity and in his rigid domestic discipline, which included aligning the pencils on his desk according to length and color. He even carried it into the pages of Mein Kampf. Although Schoenberg and other Jewish colleagues were ostracized, although his own music was denounced by the Nazis as ''cultural Bolshevism,''Webern stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Revolution in a Whisper | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...social structure throughout the '60s remained rigid, with few informal activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Movin' In... ...And Checking Out | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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