The Getty's image has been damaged in recent years by a state investigation into its finances and a perception that it has strayed from its museum roots.
Whatever happens next week in Washington, Ward said the U.S.O.C. must change a perception that it cannot end its squabbling or stop the merry-go-round of leadership.
The nearly 14-year-old company, which is trying to combat a perception that it is losing its youthful scrappiness, has also begun to invest heavily in more out-of-the-box hardware solutions, like Google's Glass Project, wearable glasses that transmit and capture information and images.
Within the television industry, CNN has been fighting a perception that it has lost some of its luster as Fox News has continued to build momentum and an ever-larger audience with a mix that is heavy in political news and opinionated talk shows.
But it has been vexed by a perception that it is difficult to use, and that its lexicon of symbols and abbreviations can be impenetrable.
Facebook already struggles to fight a perception that it creeps on people's data, and that its privacy controls are so confusing that people accidentally expose their own information.
Editors' Note: September 19, 2000, Tuesday An article in Business Day yesterday reported on the rise of the Fox News Network and its efforts to combat a perception that it advances a conservative political agenda.
An article in Business Day yesterday reported on the rise of the Fox News Network and its efforts to combat a perception that it advances a conservative political agenda.
The 82nd Airborne Division had been deployed by parachute and glider and had suffered high casualties, leading to a perception that it had failed to achieve many of its objectives.
The 82nd Airborne Division had been inserted by parachute and glider and had suffered high casualties, leading to a perception that it had failed to achieve many of its objectives.
Another record from the same office comments that "its standardised nature and inapplicability to certain job groups; a perception that it does not link to improvements in rewards; and the difficulty of undertaking objective assessments in situations where possibilities of collusion might be prevalent".
