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The interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel shaft, in which elevators and stairwells were grouped.
Halifax (West Yorkshire) does not mean holy hair, traditionally referring to some martyred maiden, but probably nook of land with coarse grass, the first part of the name representing Old English halh (related to modern hole and hollow ), and the hair in this case being long, straggly grass.
Traditionally, the danger to any management reform is that it can become a hollow, paper-driven exercise where management improvement initiatives are not integrated into the day-to-day activities of the organization.
' The allusion could be to a hand slapping the loaf, thereby producing a deep, hollow, fartlike sound.
But that call sounds increasingly hollow, at least from an intellectual perspective, and the reason is not just that bringing the budget into balance (via, in no small part, the 1993 tax increase) has proved to have pleasant side effects for the economy.