Word: teamwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begun on a shoestring in 1954, KQED was at first limited by lack of cash to a 30-minute program three nights a week. General Manager Jim Day, 39, credits the station's subsequent rise to the do-it-yourself teamwork of the original six-man staff. By 1955, with the helo of a $114,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, KQED was running regular lectures, panel discussions, art shows and live symphonic concerts, kept growing even after the Ford grant...
...hard. I wish the distinguished minority leader had seen fit to put this power play into operation while the distinguished majority leader was on the floor and in charge." But Mansfield overlooked one point. Republicans, however small their victory, exhibited the tightest White House-to-Senate leadership-to-floor teamwork displayed so far this season...
...president and chief stockholder, he owns or controls some 40 companies, ranging from Tidewater Oil Co. to firms that make trailers, own hotels, sell life insurance. Wherever Getty happens to be, there is centered the world of Getty Oil and its satellites. In an age of teamwork, J. Paul Getty is the last of a vanishing breed: an autocratic tycoon who runs his own show, has nothing but contempt for the modern, hemmed-in executive and the committee concept of running a business. "Most of the people in the top management of American business," says Lone Wolf Getty, "are promoted...
...Dobie began, "the professional educators in America have been holding school without much respect for cultivated mind.' All the public school superintendents and a great many college presidents hold degrees in education spelled with a capital E. They are johnny-on-the-spot wilh Rotary Club optimism, football teamwork. Dedication-to-America Week, and such as that: but many of them don't know [a thing] when it comes to a real teacher of English, history, geology or any other branch of knowledge. Despite their degrees and positions, they are puerile-minded. Nearly all of them are stuffed...
...credit side of the balance were good teamwork on a day that made spectacular playing difficult, and much improved tackling. On the debit was an injury to South African graduate student Derek Henderson that will put him out for the rest of the season with a displaced cartilege and ripped ligaments...