Word: runarounds
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...serious allegations involving the Labor Secretary were buried in FBI files during two investigations is disturbing. Webster has launched an internal inquiry into why the reports were tucked away for more than a year. According to a memo by Webster, the probe has so far disclosed only a bureaucratic runaround: "The failure to disseminate this information was due in part to a belief on the part of the Newark division that the information had been furnished to the special section at FBI headquarters . . . Bureau managers of the special-inquiry section have advised that they did not receive the information...
...divestment has been relegated to ineffective committees or research groups that allow the universities to appear concerned while taking-no-effective action. While Brutus does not consider Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility as bad as many of these groups, he sees it as "part of the same runaround...
...rights committee member, who asked not to be identified, called the referral to Rosovsky "the classical bureaucratic runaround," saying that members of the rights committee had originally gone to Rosovsky for an appointment, but were told he had "no time" and were sent...
...equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being, 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by a human being except where such orders would conflict with the First...
...slow. By the time they get around to solving a problem, the guy has either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...