Word: push
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Crimson lost its shutout at 19:30 of the final period on a hotly contested penalty kick. While the ball was in the Crimson penalty area, one of the referees called a push. The play continued after the push and a Princeton player handed the ball toward the goal. One of the Harvard fullbacks stopped the ball with his hands...
Instead of calling a direct kick against Harvard for the push or a free kick for the Crimson because of the Tiger hand ball, the referees awarded Princeton a penalty kick. Lazlo Adams then scored the disputed goal...
Managers have discovered that at least in certain jobs, they can push productivity up by applying what labor economists call "participative management" and "job enrichment." The ideas are so new that only a handful of companies have tried them. One of the largest is Polaroid, where workers participate in planning changes in their job routines and help decide what new machinery to buy. They can also take company-sponsored courses ranging from English to engineering, either after hours or on company time, and they are encouraged to apply for higher positions. Polaroid officers say that the program has certainly enriched...
...blacks as a group and 61% for executives. "The blue collar worker has seen the smart guy and the poor guy get theirs and has been wondering what was happening to him," says Economist Robert Nathan. "Now he is beginning to catch on." He has learned that those who push and speak up get attention and results...
...been avoiding disaster. In the first quarter, Chrysler lost only $29 million, rather than the $40 million that Wall Street had anticipated. In June it rounded up $800 million of bank credit over a hectic weekend-just in time to quiet rumors that holders of short-term notes would push the company down the same road that the Penn Central followed. Last week it reported a third-quarter net of $1.1 million, off 71% from a year earlier; that left a loss of $20 million for this year's first nine months...