Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior military adviser to Secretaries of Defense over the years, Army General John A. Wickham Jr. learned much about the ways of Washington. For example: there are times when the military is expected to shoulder full responsibility for its snafus, and there are other times when it makes sense to spread the blame around. Last week, in his first meeting with reporters since being made Army Chief of Staff in June, Wickham deemed the climate right for straight talk. In any fair-minded parceling out of responsibility for the military's mounting problems with weapons systems that cost shockingly...
...production snafus and bottlenecks. In 1979 Dover Elevator Co. formed quality circles at its Horn Lake, Miss., plant. Says Robert Scott, Dover's quality-circle coordinator: "It has done so many good things you can't even count them. I suppose if it were to be put in dollar terms, we have had a $12 to $15 payback on each dollar invested in the program." One quality circle suggested a way to install elevators in shafts more economically; the improvement will save Dover $2.5 million over the next five years. Westinghouse Electric Corp., with more than...
...rapid growth, however, was hard to control. In the words of Markkula, the problem was "to keep the race car on the track." The introduction in 1980 of Apple III, a more powerful version of its predecessor, was a fiasco. The new machines, plagued by production snafus, were full of bugs and had to be withdrawn from the market. Early last year some 40 employees were fired, and the project manager of Apple III resigned: Since then, Apple's growing pains have eased. Sales of a retooled Apple III have improved, and those of the less expensive Apple...
...with the "Daniel Fylstra Computerized Universe Award." Between M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School, he worked for a year as an engineer at Intermetrics, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., designing software for NASA'S space shuttle and for the European Space Agency. That large bureaucracy, with its predictable snafus, coupled with his own lack of influence, persuaded Fylstra to strike out on his own. Says Fylstra: "I always felt uncomfortable with the system, with the conventional way of doing things...
...Rudy Russo, the chairman of the Board of Assessors, told the council a long tale of bureaucratic delays and contract snafus. "Obviously it's taken us a lot longer than expected, and it may take us a lot longer still," he said...