Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest management mistakes result from the bad habits incidental to the technique that made U.S. industry great: mass production. Geared to building products that could always be fixed up with a spare part-or, at worst, replaced-management has found it hard to adjust to building custom products that must work perfectly the first time. Building a missile or a satellite, says Boeing's Ball, "is like building a television set that will operate four hours a day for 500 years without an adjustment.'' For such a job, asserts the Harvard Business School's Pro fessor...
...present pace, Murdock will make good, with time to spare, on his ambition to run a $100 million operation. Few of his friends expect him to stop there. Says one: "David is after more than money. Just what it is. I don't know." Murdock thinks he does. "The thrill of achievement," he says, "is to me as the shot is to the dope addict. You may beat me, but I'll come back and come back and come back until I beat you or drop dead...
Theoretically at least, these are all spare-time activities. Dr. Blake's regular job for the past ten years has been Stated Clerk-permanent executive officer-of the Presbyterian General Assembly, an elected body that is the heart of the government of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), who number 3,259,011. Last week and this, in Buffalo, as Dr. Blake took charge for the tenth year of the General Assembly, the prime item on the agenda represented the highest ambition of his career-the "Blake Proposal" for the creation of a new, still-unnamed...
...batting average, is a strong candidate for Rookie of the Year. To balance his youngsters, Scheffing relies on a hard core of able, steady Tiger veterans: Outfielder Kaline, Shortstop Chico Fernandez, Pitchers Frank Lary and Don Mossi. For the first time in years, the Tigers have strength to spare. Reserve Outfielder Charley Maxwell hit 24 home runs in 1960, and second-string First Baseman Larry Osborne led the American Association in batting...
Activists are different by nature: to become involved, to the extent sometimes of risking life, in political struggles on the national, state, or even local level, requires courage and strength--but always it requires conscious conviction. A man cannot be a revolutionary in his spare time...