Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BURNS'S THEORY of leadership is suggestive and sophisticated, if not convincing. "Leadership," he contends, "is the reciprocal process of mobilizing, by persons with certain motives and values, various economic, political and other resources, in a context of competition and conflict, in order to realize goals independently or mutually held by both leaders and followers...
...employees to heightened awareness of their own vulnerability. But so far, these unions have failed to realize their promise. The news reporters and editorial writers belong to a mammoth newspaper guild that covers linotype operators, want-ad salesmen, shop foremen, etc. Consequently, the union deals strictly with what its various members have in common such as health benefits, vacation time automatic pay increases, and other work issues that have traditionally concerned labor unions...
Thievery in various forms has become all too frequent over the past three years in the production fields and exploration areas of the South and Southwest that are the heart of what petroleum people call the U.S. Oil Patch. Spurred by the rise in oil prices, drilling activity has reached its highest level since the '50s, resulting in an acute shortage of pipe, drill bits and other oil-exploring and -producing equipment. Orders for derricks can take as much as 18 months to fill. Buyer impatience has spawned a burgeoning subindustry: a booming black market for stolen oil equipment...
Police estimate that 70% of the thefts are inside jobs. Says Houston Police Lieut. J.B. ("Bill") Bradley: "It goes right down to the roustabout in the field." Identification procedures are so lax that some firms wind up buying or renting back their own equipment through various "midnight" dealers. When it is sold, the stolen gear usually goes for bargain prices ?$500, say, for a high-pressure valve that costs $5,000. But some thieves with business savvy have been known to make really big money. In July, Houston's special "fence detail" arrested a middle-aged veteran salesman with...
...Humans seem to have a genetic predisposition toward learning some form of communal aggression. The way to control it is to "create a confusion of cross-binding loyalties" to various groups...