Word: employable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several leading mattress manufacturers, including Sealy, Simmons and Serta, employ the husband-and-wife team to investigate customer complaints. The Yurses, who handle about 150 cases a week, either visit the customer's home or pass along the assignment to their network of some 20 part-time mattress testers in eight Midwestern states and Pennsylvania. Rayco's testers, mostly college students, earn at least $10 per call. Usually the problem can be easily remedied, perhaps by turning the mattress over or lubricating the box spring. After three years on the job, the Yurses earn $100,000 annually and are trying...
...different methods employed by Trump and the city are best illustrated in the building of the skating surface. Trump opted to employ more workers and lay the surface quickly. In a single week his crew installed the pipe and tested it for leaks with water under high pressure. Then, in one day, from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m., 290 people poured concrete until the floor was done...
Harrington takes a strong stand and has a consistently good record on civil rights, said Manning. "As United States attorney for Massachusetts, Harrington sought to employ as many Blacks and minorities as possible. During Shannon's terms as Congressman, he didn't hire one Black or minority...
Responding to Williams and Spence, Loury said in an interview that "no one will come out and say to you `we are using different standards."' But, he said, the pressure to employ the "correct" numbers of Blacks sometimes results in different implicit standards...
...nation's coastlines and employ almost its entire inventory of AWACS radar planes in a drug interdiction role." Said Chapman Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management: "To use F-16 squadrons to intercept low- flying, slow, propeller-driven aircraft will be a difficult task, but we could do it. It just would be very inefficient...