Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service varies," he says. "Most businesses do not fail; managers do. Business failures are management failures." His consistent formula for success is to fire the old management, slash the staff and pinch pennies. Once he became president of Curtis in May 1970, SerVaas went to work on Holiday. He shrank it to newsmagazine size, cut its frequency from twelve to nine issues a year, booted out Editor Caskie Stinnett, slashed the staff by two-thirds and started promoting tours. Beurt's wife Cory became executive editor of both Holiday and the Post. Transformed into a middle-class book geared...
...miles above the earth, the plane probably has less vibration than a normal jet and the same interior noise level. The Concorde is narrow and somewhat claustrophobic, which may make it uncomfortable for some. But for me that feeling paled before the mind-boggling way in which it shrank the world...
...highest in seven years, and 4,600,000 people were out of work. Surprisingly, job lessness among blacks increased at a rate well below its historic pattern in business slumps. For many years, the black unemployment rate has been twice or more the white rate; this year the ratio shrank to 1.73 to 1. Reasons: there has been some decline in discrimination, blacks have built up seniority by now, and they have many jobs in service trades, in which layoffs have not been as severe. Joblessness among professional and technical workers doubled, as did the number of persons unemployed...
...rival Franciscans, who did not approve of such cultural accommodation. A century-long controversy developed around the "rites" issue-whether or not Chinese Christian converts could be permitted to retain their cult of ancestor veneration. When the Vatican finally decided against the Confucian rites, Catholic hopes in China shrank. Not until World War II did Pope Pius XII reverse that decision. When Pope Paul VI spoke admiringly of "the cult of ancestors" in his "Message to Asia" last week, it was a gesture more than two centuries too late...
During last May's fateful weekend. White remained away from the campus until two nights of disorder had passed. When he finally returned, he shrank from meetings with students. He made no attempt to dissuade the National Guard from breaking up the potentially volatile noon demonstration on the third day of turmoil. By the time the Guardsmen began shooting, White had retreated to lunch in a restaurant a mile away...