Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ralph Davidson. This week I am taking it over in order to report two important new executive assignments, including Davidson's. He is leaving the publisher's chair to join the office of President James R. Shepley. His assignment, as Shepley wrote in a memo to the staff, will be "to share the duties of my office and familiarize himself with all of Time Inc.'s major lines of business...
Brzezinski holds a weekly staff meeting on Thursday afternoons in the Roosevelt Room. They sound more like postgraduate seminars in political science, economics and psychology than security briefings. The emphasis is on intellectual exchange. Brzezinski accepts criticism from his staff so long as it is not too blunt. He holds, but does not hog the floor. His 31-member staff is lean, and in some areas, such as the Middle East, the Far East and strategic policy, it is very good...
...employees unable to enter her office when students protesting Harvard's investment in firms operating in South Africa closed University Hall in late April. It was an "eventful" week, Gibson recollects but it didn't stir up conflicts between the administrators in the office and their staff...
...People might even have gotten a little carried away with their predictions and precautions," she says. UHall employees were phoned at home early that morning, and told to report to work in other buildings, where they conducted a more or less normal day's work. But the staff did not express their personal views on Harvard's investment policies, or on the students' actions. Most people "are pretty apolitical, within their work identities at least. Sentiments aren't voiced or acted on, which I suppose is kind of surprising. In a way I'm reluctant to say that--it doesn...
There's not a whole lot of interaction between the staff assistants even on a purely social level, Gibson says. "Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared...