Word: deadwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they vary in complexity, all her people face the uncompromising difficulties of love and its opposite-not hate, but apathy-a madding emptiness that invites lust and violence the way deadwood invites fire. Loretta Wendell is in some ways the most fortunate. As a 16-year-old Depression waif, she wakes to discover that her lover, sleeping beside her, has just been shot through the head. Within the hour, a neighborhood policeman, more interested in investigating Loretta than the murder, has her back in bed. Marrying him to rise in the world, she eventually finds her level...
Despite that, Agnelli has shown that he knows how to run an auto company, although he concedes that "I haven't the slightest idea how to build a car." Unhappy about some deadwood that had piled up under Valletta, Agnelli imposed a U.S.-style rule of retirement at 65 and promoted much younger men. He has also radically decentralized management in the belief that "it doesn't do any good to sit on the heads of your executives." Fiat's managers bring him only major decisions, but on those, Agnelli is the ultimate authority. Under...
...best foundations are acutely conscious of their public image and obligations, and sensitive to the need for periodic introspection if they are to preserve their function as the implement of vital change. Philanthropic institutions can degenerate into bureaucracies, stiff with habit and overloaded with deadwood; it is difficult, for instance, to fire a philanthropist for backing a poor horse. Soon after taking over the presidency of the Ford Foundation in 1966, McGeorge Bundy declared his conviction that periodic personnel turnover at the disbursement level was probably a good foundation practice...
Akerson will combine the best of the Herald and Traveler staffs, prune the deadwood, plow back savings in production and distribution costs into a new morning paper, which will be called the Herald Traveler. By consolidating and improving the product, Akerson hopes he will have a better chance of competing with the Globe for Boston's advertising dollars...
...problem of "deadwood membership" is a perennial one for the Freshman Council. Fifty per cent participation of members is standard. But the measures now being taken to discourage inactivity are unprecedented in recent years...