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...maybe not quite the way a National Basketball Association team would go after Michael Jordan. But if you're a manager in the American Hiring League, you are looking for employees in the hottest U.S. economy in 28 years, and you're going to have to wheel and deal, beg, borrow and steal--however and wherever you can--to find the help you need. Not since 1970, when the Vietnam War and a guns-and-butter economy created a huge demand for skilled manpower, has there been a tougher time to expand the corporate work force, especially in the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...then returned to the original abductor, who forever vilified my other parent. As a result, I am estranged from both parents. Having gone through it, I can't say if it was worse to be abducted or to be found. I can say the abduction indelibly marked me. I beg parents who contemplate kidnapping their children to reconsider. Abducting a child often isn't about the kid. It's an attempt by the kidnapping parent to stick it to the spouse. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 1, 1998 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...market plummeting, the ruble propped up by rapidly depleting currency reserves and zero economic growth projected for this year, Moscow is looking to the IMF to keep its economy from going over the edge, reports Meier. A group of top Russian bankers approached IMF boss Marcel Camdessus today to beg for an estimated short-term $5 billion bailout, with further guarantees of up to $15 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Reaches for the Begging Bowl | 5/27/1998 | See Source »

CHRIS CARTER, creator of The X-Files, is going the extra light-year to make sure the future is filled with conventions where people in Scully and Mulder masks beg former extras on the show for autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...Serbs. "I hate them so much that if I fired my gun up in the air, the bullet would find its own way right between some Serb's eyes," said one of the guards, cradling his rifle. "Every day people come to me on their knees and beg me to give them weapons to fight," said another, a tough guy in sneakers, camouflage fatigues and a red Chicago Bulls cap. "The Serbs may come to Smonica," he says, "but I'll take as many of them as possible before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo Smolders | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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