Word: employs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are about 11 million companies in the U.S. classified as small. Of these, 3.4 million do $5 million or less in business each year and employ fewer than 100 workers. Nonetheless, bantam businesses contribute a surprising 43% to the gross national product. Between 1969 and 1976, according to David Birch, urban studies professor at M.I.T., two-thirds of the economy's new jobs came from firms with 20 or fewer employees. At least half of the nation's private work force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small...
Pryor and other critics charge that agencies often sign contracts for useless and overpriced studies, play favorites by hiring former Government staffers as consultants, and employ outsiders as full-time employees in order to get around hiring freezes. Most important, Pryor claims that agencies increasingly are allowing consultants to make important policy decisions. Says he: "It's a really scary situation. They [the consultants] are elected by no one and are accountable to no one." Among the examples of questionable practices and mismanagement detailed in the GAO report: - The Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered a survey...
...cent or more. The result: "We wouldn't even have the money to pay our fixed costs--the interest on our debt, our MBTA and MDC assessments, the pensions." If all went as the backers of the referendum envision it, there would not be the money in Cambridge "to employ a single fireman or cop," Sullivan says...
...current revival, most arguments still employ the traditional definition of God as a unique personal creative entity...
...deals firmly yet succinctly with critics' worries. Of the department's 17,000 employees, 11,000 work in American schools overseas, she says. Most of the department's new employees are drawn from old bureaucracies, she adds, noting that, when it's all said and done, the department will employ fewer people than were employed in the programs it inherits. "It's not a huge sprawling bureaucracy at all," she insists...