Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that the best thing which will be heard on this recording is my chewing toast," Singer said, pointing to the miniature tape recorder by my side. "You will see what music this will give," he added, nodding sagely...
...cannot be satisfied by working for someone else. They are not inspired by the Nixon Administration's slogan of "black capitalism," which they dismiss as smooth honky talk. To them, the words stand for a plethora of unimaginative federal programs that have been long on promises and red tape, short on loans and management-training programs that would help to create real wealth in the hands of Negroes...
...Advancement is rare. About 85% of all postal employees are in the five lowest grades, and more than four-fifths finish their careers in the same grade as they started. The Post Office has difficulty holding on to personnel, suffering an annual turnover of 23%. Yet because of red tape, it takes at least 13 weeks to hire a new employee; two-thirds of the applicants do not wait that long...
...computer system to keep track of inventory and automatically reorder supplies. Within a few months the company was inundated by unneeded pipes, parts and paper. The reason, one manager recalls, was that "every foreman saw the system as detracting from his authority and adding more red tape. The foremen, I suspect, began faking shortages so the computer would reorder." The computer system was junked...
...many as 7,000 words a day, Gardner exercised cast-iron discipline. As part of what he called his "fiction factory," on a 1,000-acre ranch at Temecula, Calif., he kept up to seven full-time secretaries busy transcribing the novels he dictated into a battery of tape recorders. For privacy, he worked in strategically located trailers and houseboats. When his first wife died in 1968, one of his secretaries, Agnes Jean Bethell, became Mrs. Gardner. She had come to work for him in 1930 and was a model for Delia Street, Perry Mason's girl Friday...