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is maintained, since no single scheduling technique or techniques are singled out for a favored position.
Scores of top authorities, organizations, and leading publications provided much of the material which makes up the 31 chapters of the Scheduling Handbook. The 21 contributing companies include such leading firms as IBM, General Electric, Ford, and Mobil Oil.
James J. O'Brien, who worked with the originating group, has applied CPM and PERT techniques since 1960 to many projects for such diverse organizations as RCA, General Electric, Ethyl Corporation, and Port of New York Authority. As President of MDC Systems Corporation, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and New York, he heads a balanced management-engineering-software organization and has designed a number of computerized systems principally in the M.I.S., cost, and scheduling fields. O'Brien is author of CPM in Construction Management (McGraw-Hill 1965) and of the CPM section of AIA book, Creative Control of Building Costs.
Don't Bet On Raccoons
Here's an interesting report just in from Lansing. Mich. The raccoon's safety record is improving, but it is still the worst jaywalker in the southern Michigan animal kingdom, according to a 1968 survey of animal and bird deaths on state highways in Ionia County.
The survey, conducted by the Ionia County Road Commission and reported to the Department of State Highways, showed that 459 raccoons died on state highways in the county. That's 60 less than in 1965, the last time the county made such a survey.
Highway traffic also claimed 228 squirrels and 149 opossums. The slow and clumsy badger had only two deaths.
The study showed that although the animal and bird kill dropped from 1,936 in 1965 to 1,390 in 1968, the deer kill nearly doubled, from 46 to 90. (Motorists with sensitive noses may have sensed that the number of skunks killed decreased substantially from 106 to 54.)
Other victims to traffic in the county included rabbits, 59; cats, 94; dogs, 64; mink, 4; pheasant, 18; owls, 19; hawks, 7; fox, 23; partridge, 30; woodchucks, 29; weasels, 17; muskrats, 33, and crows, 11.
In a world-wide survey conducted by the Calcium Chloride Institute, not one penguin traffic fatality was reported in 1968.
In Other Words...
By Walter T. Derk
MCAA Insurance Consultant
Much has been written about insurance but many times the specific question which you would like answered is not covered. Readers are invited to submit questions on any insurance matter. While all may not be answered via this column, every question submitted will be studied and answered by Mr. Derk personally.
Question?
Sometimes we are called upon to help create hold-harmless wording we are to sign, although the owner or general contractor benefits from it. Can you suggest such wording?
Answer:
Yes. Use the agreement contained in AIA Document A-201 intact. It is reasonable, easy to insure and closely follows the wording in your insurance policies. But make it a point to use all of it, including the last paragraph eliminating design errors of the architect, etc.
Question?
Are the tables included in your booklet, "Insurance For Contractors" still current and OK to use?
Answer:
Portions of the Increased Limits tables and Payroll Limitations have changed since 1966, but as a country-wide guide it is still meaningful and, hopefully, helpful. I hope to get a new edition out in 1970, including some entirely new material.
Question?
How can I tell if a quotation we just received for an Umbrella Liability policy is in line?
Answer:
Mail me a copy of the quotation, if you wish, and I'd be glad to look it over and let you know how it looks.
Question?
We want to add some employees and dependents to our MCAA Insurance Plans. How do we go about it?
Answer:
The Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment Program is necessarily designed to accept additions, deletions (Continued from page 24)