Word: employs
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...images of the outside world do not focus precisely on the retina but rather in front of it, either because the eyeball is too long or because the cornea and lens bend light rays too much. Just as orthodontists use braces to correct the position of crooked teeth, orthokeratologists employ hard contact lenses to alter the curvature of the cornea to improve vision. At least 300 optometrists now specialize in "ortho-k," and tens of thousands of Americans are believed to have undergone the increasingly popular treatment...
Wong and Margolin employ complete and diverse styles of play, including spins, drives, chops and tricky serves...
...ACSR report makes recommendations that for several reasons fall far short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid. First, the report focuses on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the bigger issues of U.S. corporate involvement. U.S. corporations employ a total of less than 1 per cent of the South African black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect...
...Washington firms employ more than 100 lawyers, and two-Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn (130 attorneys) and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (110)-did not even exist 20 years ago. But the hottest growth area is the small new firm with a big name on its shingle. Among former Government luminaries who helped to open offices during the past two years: ex-Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, ex-Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffmann, ex-Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and ex-CIA Director William Colby. Old-line firms also face competition from specialty firms staffed by former congressional counsels or agency...
...plant by late this year will crank out nearly 800 Rabbits a day (200,000 a year), employ 4,000 people, pay them $50 million annually and pump an additional $50 million into the local economy by stimulating employment in auto-related industries. Already, says Plant Manager Richard Cummins, VW is doing business with some 1,800 Pennsylvania firms. If all goes as planned, VW will be assembling its U.S. Rabbits mostly from U.S.-made parts by next year, with only engines and transmissions coming from Wolfsburg, West Germany. In economically depressed Lewistown, Pa., for example, C.H. Masland...