Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff went fishing in the ocean and returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...
...limited in relation to the total number of problems that exist in the world. We have to be thoughtful in choosing our involvements. Secondly, if we get involved, we must prevail. There are no awards for losers." Anthony Lake, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, uses more cautious phrasing: "What Viet Nam should have taught us is to be very clear-eyed about our interests and the situations we are getting into when we use our military power. It should not have taught us that we should never use our power. We should be very careful...
Isaacs had a few ideas about how to save the Star, but he did not want to impose them arbitrarily and risk alienating the wary staff. So he borrowed from a successful participatory management scheme introduced in 1972 at a car-mirror plant in Bolivar, Tenn. Isaacs set up eight committees (there are now eleven) composed of newsroom volunteers and usually a management representative. The committees suggested ways to improve the Star's design, writing, editorials, special sections and allocations of manpower, space and money. A strategy committee considered the paper's overall position in the market. Says...
...University-wide committee of women faculty and staff sponsored a conference last Saturday highlighting the problems in hiring and promotion, as well as career and personal life, facing women at Harvard today...
Though problems in the Afro-American Studies department are not as widely publicized an issue as divestiture, those students most immediately concerned with University action against the department hope to win fellow students' support for the department. Petitions calling for increased tenured staff and funding for the department are at present circulating the Houses. Returns from four Houses alone show over 500 signatures; the final amount of student support remains to be seen...