Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Publicly, the administrators remained calm, expressing satisfaction with the way the company they'd set up to run the plant--the Medical Area Services Corporation (MASCO)--was performing. But privately, they had to be questioning their scheme, wondering what had happened late Saturday night when the plant, under control of MASCO's higher-ups, stopped functioning and the emergency switches had to be thrown. They had to know that the 13 hospitals and institutions which count on the plant for heat, chilled water and air conditioning would not be reassured if the lights started to dim or the incubators started...
...raison d'etre of the managerial class"--whom Darity called "workers of the mind," as opposed to "workers of the body--"is domination and control," he said...
...Tuesday night faded into Wednesday morning, shock gave way to an aching acceptance of defeat for the entire Democratic Party. Gliding gracefully on Reagan's coattails, Republicans slipped past their opponents in all parts of the country. They grabbed control of the Senate for the first time in 25 years, inched to within striking distance in the House of Representatives, and won clear victories in the battle for governorships and state legislatures...
Rosen, who heads Energy Resources Inc., a firm specializing in advanced technology for energy projects such as pollution control and hazardous waste disposal, has travelled to South Africa three times in the past year...
...state, America's last frontier. McPhee is too much the Princetonian descendant of the painstaking Yankee silversmith. He crafts nice pieces for nice people to read in their nice New Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year-old bourbon. One knows his flawless Alaska book, while making lyrical, profound reading, misses much of Alaska, for few there give a damn...