Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creative workshop" session eight months ago, a white-collar office worker sparked the answer to the problem of how to design a new tire machine; he had attacked the problem without any preconceived technical notion that it was impossible. Motorola's President Robert Galvin has set up a special "idea clinic" along much the same lines. Motorola's ticket of admission to the clinic is a list of 10-25 ideas on a company problem. Then the lucky thinkers spend a free weekend at a luxurious hotel or country club chewing over their ideas, looking for the best...
...House United. In Tokyo, faced with a new national law designed to force its members out of business after April 1, the National Federation of Special Restaurant Workers' Unions, a sisterhood composed entirely of prostitutes, agreed to comply, made only one demand on the government: $500 each in severance...
Sullivan, as chairman of the School Committee and with the backing of a majority of the Committee employed his power as chairman to nominate the seventeen appointees at a special meeting, ostensibly called to consider the budget. The officer who by law should make nominations for the school system, Superintendent of Schools John W. Tobin, was absent. Sullivan obtained approval, however, to suspend Committee's rules in order to have the committee vote on his nominations which it approved by a five-to-two majority...
...guard against misuse of the power of appointment. The Cambridge Municipal laws state that the Superintendent shall submit nominations with a detailed written report of the "education, experience...and other qualifications" of the nominees. In addition all votes must normally take place at an open meeting, and at a "special meeting" the School Committee can consider only the particular question it was called to discuss...
Sullivan's nominations were made neither by the Superintendent of Schools, nor did he originally enumerate the qualifications of his appointees. And the committee majority approved them at a closed, not an open session. Furthermore, the special meeting had been summoned to consider the budget and could not legally treat other matters. While the School Committee is entitled to suspend its own rules of procedure, it cannot set aside the General Laws of Massachusetts. These, in addition to the Cambridge law, require that the School Committee shall ascertain the qualifications for all teaching personnel...