Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letdowns against the weaklings can be avoided, and if an occasional repeat of Saturday can be thrown in there somewhere (preferably the weekend of January 9-10, when Princeton and Penn dribble into Cambridge), Harvard really does have chance, if not at first, but at least to scare a few people...
...budget can be cut," he says, "but it doesn't follow that services must be diminished relative to that cut." Carter Bales, a partner of McKinsey & Co., a management consultant firm, urges the creation of an independent agency to assess the productivity of city departments. "That would scare the living hell out of the managerial bureaucrats," says Bales. If an agency fails to measure up, its work can be contracted out to a more efficient private organization. Beyond that, the city must stop trying to be all things to all people. As Zuccotti puts it: "We have to decide...
...going to give me the money to work. Now I've got to tell you that I don't think I'm very avant-garde, so I'm willing to put their money where my head is because the shows never come off that avant-garde (which could scare investors off). You see, I've spoiled my investors. They've made a lot of money with me for a long, long time and now they're not anymore because the last number of shows have not made much at all. Follies of course didn't make any money--it lost...
...decision. "Until they have acted, there is absolutely no change in my position," he declared at a press conference in Atlanta before he left for the international economic summit. Said Press Secretary Ronald Nessen: "The President is not backing away-quite the opposite. After trying in every way to scare this Government into a bailout, they have finally come up with a plan...
...fact is that New York's "scare tactics" had some effect. A nationwide publicity blitz orchestrated by New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey turned the country at least part way around on the issue. New Yorkers hammered away at the theme that if the city fell into default, others would soon accompany it. Yonkers, N.Y., teetered on the brink of default last week, only to be rescued at the last moment by a $25 million infusion of bank loans and state aid. Massachusetts, too, seemed headed for default until it managed to balance its $3 billion budget...