Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weed Out the Bureaucracy. Top managers have overseen the failure of modernization. They've had their chance. The quality of agents is declining. Morale is low. Broaden the merit pay system: the fact that managers have it but not those in the field creates an unhealthy rivalry...
...brought in new managers from leading utilities around the country. He hired a former Northeast whistle blower named Paul Blanch to work on a revamped employee-concerns program, created a dedicated "recovery team" for each plant and asked the demoralized and skeptical Millstone rank and file to help him weed out problem managers. (Both an NRC Special Project Office and an "independent corrective-action-verification team" of industry consultants will oversee the work; plant restart will require a commission vote.) This reorganization, Kenyon declares, "constitutes the largest management turnaround in the history of the nuclear industry...
...legitimation? As McCaffrey made clear in his speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey empathizes with sixth graders who face that terrible choice whether to smoke weed. In order to prevent this oh-so-dismal decision-making, he wants America to spend $16 billion next year to prevent the shipment of drugs to white suburbia--which will have them anyway...
...that more than one killer was involved. For example, Earl Caldwell, then a reporter for the New York Times, was in his room on the first floor of the Lorraine Motel when the shot rang out. He ran out and saw a man crouching near the edge of a weed-covered embankment at the foot of the flophouse from which the FBI contends Ray fired the fatal shot. This shadowy figure, Caldwell says, seemed to be focusing his attention on the balcony where King's aides were hovering around the fallen civil rights leader. Caldwell lost track...
...Those students who can get on are on for a very long time," Mandel says. "It's much more hectic to weed out who actually has a problem and who's there just to cause problems...