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That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

Except for a few generalized guidelines, the 150 first-year MBA students will have a curriculum "not bound by [the] legislation" which establishes the regular course load...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: B-School Faculty Overhauls MBA For Class of '72 | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

...normal first-year course load consists of 12 courses staggered throughout the year Christenson said that instead of 12 faculty members for each of 12 courses, perhaps no-more than eight men will be assigned to each experimental section, thus instituting a more condensed, less compartmentalized set-up with less courses...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: B-School Faculty Overhauls MBA For Class of '72 | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

Along with having to worry about fencing. Cetrulo has some added responsibility, a baby girl called Lara. "Larry is carrying a heavy load with his fencing, his family, his studies and his work. He's really a good pulling horse," coach Marion said of Cetrulo yesterday...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Fencers Seeking Victory Over Yale; Top Second Division Spot on Line | 3/7/1970 | See Source »

...project was completed last December, and the first load of crude oil was unloaded at Eilat from the Israeli tanker Nivi early this month. The line cost $67 million and can presently convey 133 million bbl. of oil a year. By the addition of more pumping stations, the capacity of the government-owned line could be raised by 1975 to 420 million bbl. That would be just about enough to fill the needs of a country the size of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Bet on Oil | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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