Word: employs
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...military equipment from manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe. Despite the nation's vast oil wealth, it is having cash-flow problems. It will post a $2.4 billion budget deficit this year, mainly because world demand for oil remains well below expectations. Bartering would thus allow Iran to employ its excess oil production capacity and use the crude instead of cash to pay for the planes...
...tenant group representing Boston's Columbia Point housing project has asked the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation to employ a minority consulting firm to study the impact of the library complex on the project...
...mortgage. The climate is mild, taxes are low (5%), and good education is available at little cost. A decade of economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations has caused little hardship. Almost everything is available for a price, from caviar to cars to calculators. Most households employ two or three domestic servants at wages of $25 to $50 a month. Nonetheless, two in every seven white Rhodesian marriages end in divorce-the highest rate of "marital failure " in the world after Israel...
...information requested by the disclosure resolutions would also reveal whether American firms, in complying with the boycott, discriminate against other American firms that trade with Israel or employ Jews in management positions...
...sandal maker, O'Demus was asked by a few customers if he could turn out sexual harnesses. "Pretty soon," he says, "word got around about what I could do, and I found myself with a new product line." Now O'Demus and his partner, Frank Morris, 25, employ 18 people at their Trading Post Enterprises, which grosses $500,000 a year from making bondage materials, whips, chains and other devices, mostly for the homosexual trade, and selling them on the premises in a cluster of "boutiques." Says Morris: "We're trying to be the world's first and only...