Word: teamworks
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...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...
...land. NBC whisked the home spectator all over the field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some...
...dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight the lone wolf. It has a responsibility to follow up its grants, but it must not dictate what its grantees do. Finally, it must master one of the most difficult tasks of all in foundationmanship-knowing when to terminate...