Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against your team of average hitters (like the Braves), the opposition pitcher cannot space himself. He gets tired and confused. He blows the game. Other pitchers from other teams follow exactly the same pattern. In this way you win many games, maybe even--like the Braves--a championship...
This CVA, as the Administration sees it, would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley; it would replace the timid splinter programs of the federal bureaus with a unified plan on the order of the one that worked so well in the Tennessee Valley...
...yearly concerts in Baguio and Manila. He developed talent amongst the Filipinos, and was loved and respected by his musicians and his audiences as a brilliant man who knew our tastes and never tried to cram anything down our throats. He seems to be following the same pattern in Brooklyn [TIME, March...
This is the pattern of Morgan's work, consolidation to eliminate wasteful competition and then control to insure good management. The evils of the Morgan system are obvious, but unlike his predecessors, Allen merely presents the motives and lets his readers decide whether they are good or bad. His book contains material for both the muckraker and the Morgan-worshipper. It paves the way for a more scientific evaluation of this period than has been possible in the past...
Until last week Richard H. Crowe might have served as the mold and pattern of the rising executive. He had risen, job by job, for 19 years with Manhattan's great National City Bank; at 40, he was the assistant manager of a branch on Broadway-a bulky, assured, well-dressed man whose manners, energy and way with elder bank officers stamped him plainly as bound for bigger things...