Word: demand
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Because narcotics abuse spawns stealing, companies that specialize in investigating employee theft are much in demand. A Baltimore firm called Loss Management provides its clients with a national hot line and has solved cases with the help of office tipsters who report theft at their place of work. In one case, a clerk called the hot line when the invoices she was processing did not add up correctly. As it turned out, three top managers at the company were embezzling money to buy cocaine...
...economic deterrent may begin to succeed where the legal deterrent has failed. Says Walsh of the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "We feel that if Big Business continues as it has in the last year to develop more and more stringent kinds of policies, it eventually will reduce the demand for illicit substances. It may be very effective in changing the way people view drug taking in this country...
...test its own workers but to withhold federal contracts from private firms that refuse to do the same. "Drug trafficking is the most serious organized-crime problem in the world today," said the commission, which argued that the Government and private companies can play a vital role in curbing demand for drugs...
...increasing number of firms are testing not only applicants but also certain classes of current employees. Rockwell, for example, makes test pilots give periodic urine samples. Dozens of companies, including the Los Angeles Times, Southern Pacific railroad and Georgia Power, an electric utility, now demand that employees take drug tests if their supervisors think they may be impaired. All the major U.S. oil companies have instituted such a policy for workers on drilling rigs. Since last month, a Federal Railroad Administration regulation has required some 100,000 employees who operate U.S. railroads to undergo urinalysis whenever their supervisors think they...
Growing up in Stoney Creek, Ont., a small community on the outskirts of Hamilton, Blair soon found his hockey skills in demand...