Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if a job opens up, it takes an unconscionably long time to fill it because of all the initials required at the bottom of countless memos. The average time that elapses between requesting that a job be filled and actually getting the employee is 58.6 working days. The more important the position, the longer the delay: three months for low-level managers, six months for intermediate, almost a year at the top level. By the time an administrator has his own team in place, he may be on the way out himself. Seasoned bureaucrats know how to outwait...
...Persecuted Criminal. A Department of Housing and Urban Development field office got 25 names through the Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year...
...wife) was forced to find work in another field or on a different campus. But in 1970 Michael Zuckert, then 28 and a political theorist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., asked for a leave of absence to finish his dissertation. Carleton had a counterproposal: Why not temporarily fill the seat with Michael's wife Catherine, a fellow political-science graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago? Catherine took over and, when Michael returned, began sharing the job. Today the Zuckerts are still happily ensconced at Carleton, dividing a $22,000 paycheck and teaching constitutional...
...bibliography. Thi change is not totally revolutionary. Spared are what the author calls "content foot notes,"³ those often pointless little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard: "By using footnotes judiciously you can fill your reader in on general information he lacks, satisfy his curiosity about fine points, whisper delicious tidbits in his ear, and share with him an occasional small frolic." But banned are such standard and numbing footnote fare as ed. cit., loc. cit., op. cit., idem and ibid...
...said, responding to the audience's awe at the size of his murals. "The obvious answer never seems to occur to them. Lofts in New York City, where so much of the Expressionist Movement grew, are 100 feet long by 20 feet wide. The artist's tendency is to fill up the environment...