Word: staff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first glance, the plan that Pollack and his Community Planning staff offer does not seem too revolutionary. It is called the Harvard Community Health Plan, and in essence it is just another kind of insurance system. People pay money into the plan; in return, they have their medical expenses covered...
Including the Washroom. Kleindienst lived up to his reputation last week with a memorandum that he circulated to each of the Justice Department's 1,050 Washington lawyers. As part of an efficiency experiment, Kleindienst ordered all staff attorneys to submit detailed daily reports of their working day. Starting this week, the lawyers will record their activities on time sheets. At the end of each day, the data must be transferred to a second form on which will appear the total amount of time spent on every activity, whether it be visits to the washroom or a plea before...
...week's end, in a series of nine briefings, Justice Department bosses reassured the staff that the procedures are not designed to increase their work or to catch loafers. They also pointed out that many law firms require their attorneys to keep similar records for the purpose of billing their clients. "Please don't get scared of numbers," said Herman Levy, of the department's management office, who informed the lawyers that only reasonable accuracy was expected of them. Cynics observed that the briefings themselves cost the Government more than 500 man-hours of working time...
Turning Purple. The campaign is the Love child of the Wells, Rich, Greene agency. President Mary Wells Lawrence and her staff not only wrote the copy but helped design the packaging and watched over most other stages of marketing for the Philadelphia manufacturer. The word love, says Mary Lawrence, was selected because "it will be as nice a word in 1980 as it is today." Of Love's new lipstick, she says: "They turned purple in Philadelphia when we thought of the word Lovesticks...
...game is respectability and status. The Godfather, which advances and contracts suggest should earn its author at least $500,000 in royalties, paperback and film rights, could prove a subtle opening move in getting the Mafia into the same league as the House of Lords and the German General Staff...