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... toil for an average 44.9 hours Eerweek-thehxghe’ st in the U. In middle management, the 60-hour week is common- As Cyril Northcote Parkinson famously remarked in P{zvr;iknson s Law (113?15312 - s 0 as to time amg‘ for its completion.” THE limitins‘factor ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1999
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Page 2 Thursday, March 11,1993 Northampton Chronicle & Echo s TSR 11, 1773 ING B2t s alt Rolls jobs fear

... reveals its latest financial results. Professor dies THE academic who devised Parkinson's Law has died aged 83. Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who published Parkinson's Law in 1958, died in a clinic near his home in Canterbury, Kent. ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1993
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Prof. Parkinson laws down his law

... Prof. Parkinson laws down his law D ° you know what PARKINSON'S LAW is? Do you know -wno PARKINSON Is? No one seems to have been very clear about these questions until now. Vaguely it was believed that Mr. Parkinson's Law' had something to do with little ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1958
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

9 March 1566: David Rizzio, confidential secretary to Queen Mary, murdered in Palace of Holyroodhouse Juliette ..

... novelist; 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak statesman and minister; 1966 Frank O’Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson's Law; 1969 Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flyweight world champion from 1916 to 1923, 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 361 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Something

... lesser civil servants upon their backs and so ad infinitum. Now Mr Parkinson is revealed as Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a Durham man who holds the Hawes Chair of History in the University of Malaya, a man with a satirical pen. He explains ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1958
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Now and then

... couture; 1948 Jan . Masaryk, Czechoslovak statesman and minister; 1966 Frank O'Connor, writer; 1993 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and author of Parkinson's Law; 1969 Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flyweight world champion from 1916 to 1923; 1981 Sir Maurice Oldfield ...

Published: Monday 10 March 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 445 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

taPe for common sense. That certainly the case today for battling familles who were horrified to discover there ..

... man does not always lose. - Thought for the Day - Work expands war to fill the time available for its completion. Cyril Northcote Parkinson (born 1909) Soda water was patented in 1809 by William Hamilton. A provisional agreement was signed by the Hon Charles ...

Published: Tuesday 04 May 1993
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 544 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

C Northcote Parkinson: ‘Laws’ bear his name

... C Northcote Parkinson: ‘Laws’ bear his name THE MAN who created the dictum that work expands to fill the time available, C Northcote Parkinson, has died at age 83. also adduced the law that work expanded to occupy all the people available: “I observed ...

Published: Friday 12 March 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 634 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Parkinson-the man and his Law

... Parkinson-the man and his Law Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Seigneur of the Fiefs (or tied territories) of Anneville, Mauxmarquis and Beauvoir on the predominantly feudal island of Guernsey, comes to the door of Les Caches Hall to greet me. A short, stocky ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1973
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1263 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

TOURS at EASONS Telegraph Friday 3 T ORE LIKE PILOTS SEE OUR WONDERFUL SELECTION Children's Sunbeam Skates from ..

... Tel 2843 “Work expands as to fill the time available for its completion this broadside the famous Parkinson’s Law” (3s 6d) Cyril Northcote Parkinson in another Penguin book brings to bear on organisation of organisations the attack he launches out at ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1965
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

18 EVENING POST FRIDAY MARCH 27 1987 STRANGE that double glazing should figure twice in this column in the last

... 778945 PLENTY OF FREE PARKING OPEN DAYS A WEEK Why we won’t see a city commissar IT WAS back in 1958 that historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson coined his world-famous law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion To put it another way ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1987
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1114 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Report shows public bodies are mushrooming

... has not achieved more. Prof Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian and Cambridge scholar in public administration, had some answers. He explained: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson's Law shows more than 211,000 ...

Published: Sunday 21 May 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1019 | Page: 25 | Tags: none