Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personnel director says he tries to capitalize on high employee morale. Two years ago one of the personnel office's efforts to combat "bureaucratic void"--what Cantor calls the frequent malaise among employees at large institutions who feel insignificant--was to issue a computerized statement to every employee listing each of his benefits, such as retirement and hospitalization. "That statement helped people know Harvard does care, even though it's a big place. We got literally hundreds of responses, and all but one were favorable. One woman wrote in to say she thought we should not be wasting money...
...feeling returned by many in the Republican Establishment-the party is the tude was responsible for the void. In fact, the silo was part of the obsolescent Titan system, which has been mostly replaced by Minuteman missiles. A mailing prepared for N.C.P.A.C. by Viguerie calls Church "the radical... who singlehanded has presided over the destruction of the FBI and the CIA." Church protests that his enemies are using "the big-lie technique...
...album in 1972, Bowie set himself up as the glittery, self-destructive androgyne Ziggy. More masks followed, dizzingly, along with more fine albums--Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, and a popular if antiseptic excursion into Philadelphia funk, Young Americans. Then it was off into the beckoning electronic void...
...undetected Russian breakthrough could jeopardize the ever fragile balance of power. In a world of turmoil, frequently erupting in anarchy, the U.S. must be able to exercise its influence to maintain stability. Where the U.S. fails to do so, some authoritarian power can be counted on to fill the void. That, for better or worse, is the way things...
...thinking: what is the result of our achievement? So they now go to the other extreme: Indian philosophy. And when the right people don't come then, charlatans jump in and say it is time to take advantage of these people." Chitrabhanu's goal is to fill such a void so charlatans gain no audience...