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Students in a House wanting to work in various areas--from political research to community action to organizing mixers--would form sub-committees of the House organization. Members of the House would meet periodically to decide common policy and to hear people report on their subcommittees' projects...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Organize for Democracy | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Break up the assembly line. A potentially revolutionary attempt at change is under way in the Swedish auto industry. Volvo and Saab are taking a number of operations off the assembly line. Some brakes and other sub-assemblies are put together by teams of workers; each performs several operations instead of a single repetitive task. In the U.S., Chrysler has used the work team to set up a conventional engine-assembly line; two foremen were given complete freedom to design the line, hand-pick team members and use whatever tools and equipment they wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is the Work Ethic Going Out of Style? | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...avoid the tedium of subtitles and the artificiality of dubbing. Ophuls uses a translator's technique. The speaker begins then is faded down, and his English "voice" translated with full inflection and character. Newsreels are sub-titled; so are the Englishmen. Anthony Eden is interviewed in both French and English. The subtitles help as a change in tempo, and besides, dubbing Lord Avon would be less charming than listening to his English-accented French...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Personal Histories, Collective Shame | 10/20/1972 | See Source »

President Bok announced yesterday that a four-man sub-committee of the Corporation will decide all future questions of the University's responsibility as a corporate shareholder...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Corporation Group Will Vote Proxies | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

Homans declined to predict the Circult Court's new opinion, noting that "there are so many sub-issues involved." He said, however, that he was optimistic that "we're on the same side as the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: U.S. Files Wiretap Denial, Reopening Popkin Case | 10/10/1972 | See Source »

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