Word: employed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That privileged class keeps enlisting ever younger members. Partly this is a response to juvenile laws. Older kids employ younger confederates?who tend to get off easily if caught?to push drugs, commit robberies and sometimes murder. In New Haven, two brothers, Ernest Washington, 16, and Erik, 14, along with four other kids, were arrested for robbing and killing a Yale student. Since Erik was underage, he confessed that he had pulled the trigger. He told New Haven Prosecutor Michael Whalen: "The most you're going to give me is two years." Erik, in fact, was bound over to adult...
...District 65, characterized the University's efforts as "scare tactics," Steiner holds that the entire effort was aimed at informing, rather than indoctrinating the workers, and that Harvard at all times adhered to NLRB campaign regulations. Given the University ability to squeeze almost any tactic it wants to employ within the confines of a convoluted statute, Steiner probably is right. Given Harvard's tremendous resources, in terms of manpower as well as money, Sullivan too is probably right in marking District 65's eventual defeat down to the University's last-ditch anti-union publicity blitz...
...sense of urgency has prompted business lobbyists to use more aggressive tactics. On the common situs bill, explains Forrest Rettgers, executive vice president of the NAM, "we overlooked nothing." Rettgers even lobbied black Congressmen, whom business groups previously had ignored, telling them that minority contractors, who employ mainly nonunion workers, would be hurt by the bill's passage...
...father was a baron, Von Braun showed a precocious interest in rocketry; at the age of twelve he managed to construct a rocket-powered wagon, and by the time he was 21 he had outlined the design for a moon rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun was considering a missile that...
...spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels outstrips the supply. To beat black marketeers to the punch, Poland's Communist leaders employ an un-Marxist solution: used-car capitalism...