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...think the memo [from the producer of the documentary] was, 'Now all we have to do is break Westmoreland and we have the whole thing aced.' Well, the moral of that story is, don't send memos...
...adjust the criteria and watch how those changes affect the proposed outcome. Thoughtware's Trigger ($495), another management assistant, helps an executive track his business's performance. Should sales, costs or inventory, for example, get too far out of line, the program warns the boss and automatically generates a memo to the manager responsible, asking for an explanation of exactly what went wrong and a plan...
...than expected. Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond, a Republican, had scheduled only one day of testimony. But Meese annoyed some Senators by refusing to concede that his personal business dealings with men who later went to work for the Government had been wrong in any way. More seriously, an internal memo from two lawyers in the Office of Government Ethics claiming that Meese had violated rules governing the conduct of federal employees was disclosed by the Wall Street Journal. As a result, the hearings continued for three full days as Meese underwent another uncomfortable grilling about the same issues raised...
...nonpartisan public interest lobby, claimed that the findings showed Meese's actions to be unethical. The Common Cause complaint, in turn, prompted David Martin, director of the ethics office, to ask his staff to examine the case. Two civil service attorneys, F. Gary Davis and Nancy Feathers, wrote a memo last month that cited three "ethics violations" by Meese and one incident that presented an "appearance problem...
There is nothing in the proposed four-page document that warranted sending a 22-page explanatory memo to the entire Faculty, which Spence took the extraordinary step of doing last week. ROTC's so-called "extracurricular" status, mandated by the 1969 Faculty repudiation of the organization, is not threatened. Nor is anyone proposing that ROTC return to Harvard. Indeed, there is some doubt as to whether one or more of the services could even be induced to return, should Harvard make such an unlikely request. High cost, a large number of ROTC units in the Boston area, and the memory...