Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...therefore, should recognize that it is in its best interest to cooperate fully with the city, and not try to stall or circumvent planned legislation. In addition, it should remove one of the largest obstacles to good city-University relations by allowing mixed-use occupancy of 7 Summer Rd. instead of continuing efforts to evict the remaining tenants. In another gesture of good will, Harvard should end its court challenge seeking more money and settle for the city's offer of $475,000 for a University-owned playground on Sacramento...
...community relations shows up as much in intangible ways as in concrete actions. Next to no one really trusts the community relations office, because too often it has bowed to internal pressure and opposed needed city actions. A more independent community relations office able to deal with the city instead of acting as a two-way filter is imperative, for Harvard has to give the appearance of cooperation as well as its substance...
...last November in which 72 people were killed. The incident occurred when a drilling rig that was being towed to a new location in stormy seas, apparently against technical advice, collapsed. In an "obvious deception," the People's Daily charged, Song had blamed the disaster on the weather instead of bad judgment. Some foreign analysts suspect that the rig disaster could serve as a handy pretext to purge the Petroleum Ministry. A so-called "oil clique" that included Song had concentrated on petroleum at the expense of a more diversified energy policy favored by Deng...
...plants have been gutted and filled with hundreds of millions of dollars of new equipment. Chrysler alone spent $100 million refurbishing the 73-year-old Jefferson Avenue plant, and claims that it will have 17% increased productivity. For instance, by installing engines in car bodies from the bottom up, instead of the traditional way from the top down, assembly is faster. GM is spending approximately $1 billion building new plants in St. Louis and Pontiac, Mich., to replace outdated ones...
...Instead, workers and management share the same objectives. Each plant has its white-collar and blue-collar quality-control circles, in which three to ten employees meet on their own time to analyze the standards of work and ways to improve the product. The rewards for usable ideas are mostly psychological. Unlike General Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint...