Word: timeclock
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...Timeclock. Nicolin begins his work day with an early-morning run, then punches the timeclock at ASEA!s, Vasteras headquarters just like other employees. He is on the move at least half the time keeping up with work in ASEA's 18 plants in Sweden and six abroad. He takes home paperwork but does not like to. "The crucial problem for today's businessman," he says, "is to find the time to think, and I try to reserve time for thinking...
Together, L.A.I.'s three top executives quickly organized a number of routes in Italy, bought 16 U.S. war-surplus DC-35, staffed them with able pilots and smart American-style hostesses, lured passengers by a timeclock precision of schedules. In its first year of operation, L.A.I, carried 53,000 passengers; last year, with routes extended through the Mediterranean area (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Spain), it carried 98,000, to become Italy's biggest airline. It also piled up a remarkable safety record: more than 5,000,000 miles without a serious accident...
...games must be played by timeclock. The time limit will be thirty-six moves for the first two hours and eighteen moves for each additional hour, and any man exceeding this limit automatically defaults the match to his opponent...
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