Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Split. To get G.E. in shape for risk and opportunity, Cordiner put through one of the most thorough management revolutions in the history of U.S. industry. "American business," he says, "spends too much time on thinking about this month, this year. It ought to spend more time preparing for 15 to 20 years from now-the next business generation." Another Cordiner complaint: business is so big that individual initiative is often stifled. Men who once would have been bosses of their own companies have too little chance in a corporation to run their own shows. Cordiner's answer...
...Unbeaten Kentucky, for the third straight week, held the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press major college basketball ratings today as the rest of the top ten took a thorough scrambling...
...interesting as well as plausible, she emerges as a collection of loose ends. Moreover, she tears the play apart. Her story and Dillon's never coalesce into one. As a result, the play is somewhat formless and wandering. It takes two readings, I found, in order to get a thorough notion of what is going...
Dillon himself is an artist, an actor-playwright to be specific--and a thorough second-rater. Like Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, he is suffering from "the pain of being alive," and it stings him into delivering tirades, presumably on the authors' behalf, concerning such matters as religion, the middle-class mind, and the relationship of life to art. These tirades are neither so long, so frequent, nor so good as Jimmy Porter's similar tirades, but they are well...
...dispute between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists on the mainland over possession of Formosa are brought up only during times of "crises." Because of this "brink-tottering statesmanship," he said, we are "kept on the run from crisis to crisis. There are no indications," he added, "of a thorough overhaul of long range policy toward the Far East...