Word: charting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effort to fire a single employee, a manager can spend anywhere from 25% to 50% of his working hours for a period ranging from six to 18 months at an estimated cost to the taxpayers of $100,000. To illustrate the process, Reorganizer Wellford has a 21-ft.-long chart in his office illustrating one Environmental Protection Agency official's 21-month effort to fire a $9,600-a-year stenographer. Various lines snaking through a maze of boxes and triangles denote all the required memos, warnings, suspensions and conferences. The official devoted so much time and effort...
...Communists' promise to raise the minimum wage 37%, to $500 per month by April 1. A study by the business magazine L 'Expansion indicates that these and other proposed wage increases would average 20% in 1978, boosting inflation to 18% by the end of the year (see chart). Moreover, the hikes may cause 300,000 to 400,000 bankruptcies and boost unemployment from its present level of 4.6%. Clearly, businesses in France that are already having difficulty making ends meet will not be able to pay the higher wage bills...
Presidents have a great advantage at news conferences because they can usually anticipate the questions and news secretaries can plant questions for them, Barnes said. In addition, reporters are often seated according to a chart so the President knows where he can call on reporters who ask "easy" questions...
...from a physically critical day. A "triple low" day produced the abnormal heart rhythm that led to Elvis Presley's death last Aug. 16. And Sadat's peace initiative could not have come while Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was in office because the Egyptian President's chart shows zero emotional compatibility with Rabin...
...appeal of biorhythm, like that of astrology, comes from the belief that one can chart the ups and downs of friends and celebrities simply by knowing their birthdays. According to the theory, there are three fixed cycles, each starting at the moment of birth: a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional cycle and a 33-day mental cycle. Every human is likely to perform well in the up phases of cycles, and poorly in the down or recharging phases. But the most vulnerable day, known as the critical, zero or switch-point day, comes in the midpoint...