Word: unorthodox
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Franny. The eldest Berry daughter, who has inherited her mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...
...unorthodox consultant brings Freud into the boardroom...
...this sounds like a highly unorthodox analysis, it is, because Zaleznik, 57, is a highly unorthodox consultant. He is not only Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management at Harvard Business School and a private consultant of 30 years' experience, but also a certified psychoanalyst, one of a very few in the U.S. who have made a specialty of using Freud's teachings and techniques to put corporate employees-and sometimes entire corporations-on the couch. "To me," he says, "an organization is a working coalition among executives that can be disturbed by hidden emotional factors, like...
This time the Government seemed to have a strong case. The union's $2 billion Central States pension fund, which contains retirement funds for 450,000 Teamsters, followed a plainly unorthodox investment strategy. Nearly three-quarters of its assets were socked into real estate, especially Las Vegas hotels and casinos...
...dying neighborhoods, he instituted a "sweat equity" homesteading program, offering abandoned buildings to urban pioneers for $ 1 if they would promise to inhabit and improve the property. To sweeten the deal, Schaefer's administration provided low-interest home-improvement loans. Incentives for commercial development have been equally unorthodox. In 1976 he created the Baltimore Economic Development Corporation (BEDCO), an efficient, privately operated agency that acts as a one-stop clearinghouse for businesses seeking building sites and financing in Baltimore...