Word: turnoveritis
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The autocratic Reiner had made a practice of firing 25 to 40 orchestra members each year. Steinberg established a "stick-together" policy and cut the annual turnover rate to less than ten. "Within just a few seasons," he explains, "experience, confidence and the pleasure of making music made good musicians...
> ICC's Abe Goff, an Idaho Republican and former Congressman, holds the chairmanship this year under the commission's annual rotation system. In the unwieldy 2,500-man agency, the turnover of cases is much less rapid: a decision in the Pennsylvania-New York Central merger is not...
Parke-Bernet was able to paint a rosy financial picture as recently as 1962, when its sales of $14.1 million placed it within chanting distance of Sotheby's $24.7 million. But lately the 220-year-old English firm has been auctioning most of the most important art collections, this...
Cram Courses. Foundation grants of $363,000 will pay for some basic necessities. Faculty salary ceilings will be raised from $6,500 to $8,000, to slow down a high turnover rate. The library will be expanded beyond its meager list of 33,000 titles. Brown's share of...
There will not be much improvement until the politicians learn that theirs is a public responsibility, and until the public enforces it. One of the civil service commissioners, for example, appointed his own father city manager when he was mayor of his home town several years back. The ensuing scandal...