Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long as they have a vested interest in the very problem that they are trying to solve. This means that you get somebody to solve the problem...
Families adopting children through the Holts pay a fee of $343, which includes adoption, visa and transportation costs plus $15 for a "home study." The Holts hire a private investigation agency to conduct the home study to be sure the applicants can take care of the youngsters, and that they are churchgoing Protestants (they refer Roman Catholic and Jewish requests to other agencies). Biggest difficulty: most Negro families want girls, but there are not enough Negro-Korean baby girls to go around...
...long as the ruling stands, gas suppliers will have to negotiate separate rate scales with every industrial or municipal consumer, rather than setting a flat rate for all of them. As for the FPC, not only will its rate-regulating powers be cut, but it will have to hire about 1,200 new employees to handle the job of examining the legality of each individual rate contract. Gas suppliers and the FPC both said that they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision...
...contrary, his book is a eulogy for the mental health movement, an exhortation to colleges to hire more psychiatrists and to consider their students as psychiatric cases as well as receptacles for ideas and information. But even those who, like this writer, sympathize with his aim, will not find his book very helpful in furthering his cause...
Lion Defensive Coach Buster Ramsey, for one, prefers a touch of meanness to a taste for heroics. "We don't hire linebackers that aren't mean," admits Ramsey readily. "And the first few days on the practice field in 1953 you could tell that Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back...