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...kept going `holy smokes,"' Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "I would just sit there and shake my head and say, `holy smokes...
Despite the new popularity of crisis management, executives who are fully ready to respond to emergencies are still in the minority. When a disaster unfolds, many corporate chiefs shake their heads and refuse to acknowledge the gravity of the problem. Says Gerald Meyers, former chairman of American Motors, who teaches a course in crisis management at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The most frequently made mistake is denial, and it's the biggest one you can make. Denial then gives way to anger. When the crisis doesn't go away quickly, the panic sets in." Agrees Donald Deaton, a senior vice president...
...world of Gospel TV has been rocked repeatedly by scandals, rumors, shake-ups, and reports of high-living preachers, which obscure the fact that many in the field have only modest personal incomes. An inveterate financial secrecy exacerbates the air of suspicion. In a move designed to allay donor skepticism and head off possible Government intervention, leaders of nondenominational ministries in 1979 formed the Evangelical Council for Financial Responsibility. The council certifies that its associated fund seekers fulfill a simple code of ethics. But of the seven major TV ministers, only Graham and Bakker are members...
...should be to all students at this university, that disciplinary reform is an absolute necessity. The Ad Board as it is currently structured is inconsistent with all of the principle of justice that this state and this country are built on. If the government can give us a fair shake, can't Harvard do the same? Students fear the Ad Board-they see it as more of am execitioner than as a disciplinary body. Is this really what we want at a supposedly liberal and "enlightened" university like Harvard? In addition to structural reform, sentences ought to be examined...
...football captains, meeting to shake hands before the kickoff, tackled each other instead. Congressional leaders had come down to the White House last week to talk over the year ahead on Capitol Hill, when the two principal players, President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, began sniping across the deep ideological divide between them. After the Republican President seemed to imply that some people were jobless simply because they were lazy, the Democratic Speaker exploded. He charged that Reagan's economic notions are a "bunch of baloney" that might "go over big at the country club" but not with...