Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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The office-equipment industry is getting its bounce from American businesses's rush to cut costs and boost productivity. The most unproductive workers in many companies today are office employees and executives. Between 1972 and 1977, blue-collar productivity grew by more than 2% annually, while white-collar efficiency...
The premier peddler of the new machines showing up in business offices is neither IBM nor Xerox, but An Wang, 61, a Chinese-born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates...
The steel crisis exists and is getting worse in every respect-orders, costs, profits." So said Viscount Etienne Davignon, the European Community industrial affairs commissioner. Other leading industrial nations are also feeling the worldwide steel crisis. The U.S. last month reintroduced the trigger price mechanism to protect the domestic industry...
Other psychiatrists reject the guilt free explanation and insist that the disorder involves heavy guilt, compulsive risk-taking and the desire to be caught. Says Jon E. Gudeman, psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center: "Some feel unworthy and feel a need to be punished." Irene Stiver, a psychologist at...
In a philosophical moment, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the New York Times: "If people keep getting told that their leadership is poor, or ineffective, and that they don't have any real choices, you'll see a fairly steady erosion in the legitimacy of Government...