Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year of steady expansion, the coexistence of spotty labor shortages and relatively high unemployment rates (6.1% nationally in June) is no longer news. But it is not just those seeking engineers, accountants, computer systems analysts and other highly skilled workers who are having trouble finding help. Employers seeking to fill seasonal and entry-level jobs demanding no experience and little skill -- dishwasher, store clerk, hotel maid, gas-station attendant, farmhand, to name just a few -- are often having just as much difficulty or more...
Better-off youngsters who live in the suburbs are equally inaccessible to many employers who are desperately trying to fill entry-level jobs, though for a different reason. Says Oscar Ornati, professor of manpower management at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration: "Kids in Hastings-on-Hudson ((a community in wealthy Westchester County, north of New York City)) don't get jobs wrapping fast food. They get jobs as summer para- legals or interns at corporations...
...bombshell caught nearly everyone by surprise. The government- controlle d television network, which was broadcasting a cooking show at the time, hastily cut away to air the last part of the 22-minute speech. Journalists who called Chun's office seeking reaction found they had to fill in the presidential press secretary about what had just happened before the spokesman could respond. Newspapers rushed extra editions into print...
Michael Shinagel, who is the Dean of ContinuingEducation, will be acting Director of the SummerSchool, and Hugh M. Flick, the Summer Dean ofStudents, will fill in as acting AssociateDirector. Rather than finding permanentreplacements for Pihl and Yalouris, the School ofContinuing Education is planning to create a newpost that would oversee both the Extension Schooland the Summer School...
...threefold test: laws must avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion," have a "principal" effect "that neither advances nor inhibits religion," and have a "secular" purpose. Last week the high court decided that this test is not violated by a law that permits the Mormon Church to discriminate religiously to fill nonreligious jobs...