Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss; they saw and heard a great deal...
...Fire the son of a bitch," Hughes had ordered. Then he added, as he usually did when someone had achieved close access to him, "but keep him on the payroll." By retaining people he had "fired" on his payroll, he kept a rein on them, so they would not disclose any of his secrets to the outside world...
...lavish corporate suites, no direct authority over other senior Hughes employees, practically no business experience. They did, however, have two striking advantages: they were, with a single exception, adherents to Mormonism, a religion that embodies Howard Hughes' aversion to drinking and smoking; and they had direct, unlimited access to the king himself. They also never talked; one reporter described them as "men without mouths...
Edward B. Fiske [New York Times]: On the one hand you say that what with inflation your costs are now somewhere up near the ozone level and that in order to continue to do your job well you're simply going to have to have increased access to federal funds. And on the other hand, you seem to complain that the federal government especially is meddling in your affairs, creating unnecessary paperwork, in some cases affecting admissions policies and so forth. Aren't you trying to have your cake...
...decision to institute a policy of equal access followed approval last year of the report of the Strauch Committee, which recommended a reduction of the 2.3-to-1 male-female ratio through the recruitment of an enlarged female applicant pool...