Word: employs
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Bustelli created all of his known works in the employ of the Elector of Bavaria, owner of a renowned porcelain factory at Nymphenburg. Although the factory got high prices for Bustelli figurines, the artist never received more than stingy wages. At his death, his worldly possessions consisted of a few articles of furniture, 228 engravings, some of his own figurines, and 31 books on chemistry...
...hire about 100 men, and that is how Willie Glass and the other Negroes got their new jobs. Explains a Southern executive: "Since firemen have no duties at all to perform, no skills, training, physical standards or education are required. In the circumstances, it seemed reasonable to employ unskilled elderly people who are having a hard time finding jobs." The Southern's move was particularly galling to the Brotherhood because until four weeks ago its constitution prohibited Negroes from becoming members. The infuriated union accused Southern of "disrespectful contempt," planned to take its case to court again...
...government workers. Since 1955, the federal work force has increased 8% , to 2,500,000, but the real jump has been in the number of employees of state and local governments, which has increased 45% , to 7,000,000. If the trend continues, the government at all levels will employ one in every four workers...
...already talking as if he were the next President of Argentina. "Our aims are clear," he says, "and we will move toward them in orderly, methodical fashion-patiently but with perseverance. We will not employ spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he struck a nationalistic note by promising an "investigation" of what the International Monetary Fund has been doing "for and to" Argentina. He also promised to "an nul" the controversial oil contracts be tween foreign oilmen and the old Frondizi government. "But no one need be alarmed by this," he said. "Justice will be recognized...
Fingered Spies. So many Red spies are caught, probably because there are so many more of them around. The U.S. State Department estimates that the Communist nations employ more than 300,000 trained agents, who are helped in their prying by the "legal" spies attached to the 46 Soviet embassies and legations in the free world. (The U.S. operates with a crack corps of agents only about one-fifth as large...