Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Management is hard pressed to combat such excesses. The Taft-Hartley Act rules out payments "for services which are not performed," but the Supreme Court has held featherbedding legal as long as workers perform any service-or just stay on the job. Moreover, management is often embarrassed by featherbedding on its own level. The American Institute of Management reported that 90% of U.S. companies suffer from featherbedding in the executive suite-managers who are kicked upstairs to show jobs, vice presidents (and their nephews) who have little to do after a company merges...
Speaking to some 325 lawyers assembled for a two-week program of instruction. Finletter described himself as "very, very disturbed about the changing scene in foreign affairs," and offered a general program to combat the "shrinkage of the West in population, industrial activity, and military power relative to the Communist nations...
Hadar then described the prevalent schools of thought with which Israel should integrate in order to combat the isolation set upon the country by the U.A.R
...Circus. For Freddy, that feeling comes easily. He was 13 when the Red Army advanced on Vienna in 1945. In the confusion, he escaped to Belgium, earned his living shining combat boots for the 82nd Airborne Division and other U.S. units, absorbed a rugged version of colloquial American. Later he joined a two-bit traveling circus, where he led a two-man band, painted spots on garter snakes to turn them into "American rattlesnakes," had the job of poking a senile lion in the rump to make him roar...
...little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite all efforts, 16 people died (twelve of them children) and 121 were injured...