Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to make a living in strange waters from the only trade they knew, the fishermen pulled their belts tighter. Some were forced to sell their junks and hire themselves out as deckhands. When all else was gone, they even sold their children. Meanwhile, their leaders and their friends sought help for them from the sprawling network of international organizations designed to ease the way for just such refugees as themselves. The first 2,000 fishermen to arrive got $3.50 each, plus some cast-off clothing, from the government of Nationalist China. A few boxes of food from CARE went...
...equivalent of the total U.S. labor force-are unemployed. In summer in 120° heat, millions of city workers go without water because they cannot afford to buy it at one-fifth of a cent a glass. In Calcutta (pop. 2,568,000) it is still cheaper to hire a man or a boy to pull a cart than to hire a bullock, and thousands of people sleep on the streets every night...
...time overlook social irresponsibility and stark prejudice right under our very noses . . . What does your experience of God say? Shall we continue to segregate ourselves into white churches in Boston? If we do, can we still call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus ?" Pastor Hale announced his intention to hire a Negro minister to replace the minister to students, who was leaving to take a parish...
Despite the task force approach, research is not a monopoly of the big companies. Many small companies that cannot afford full-scale research programs of their own can hire top outside brains to solve their scientific problems. Companies such as B. F. Goodrich and General Dynamics specialize in product development to fit other companies' requirements. Even corporations with their own big laboratories often hand over research projects to scientific contractors such as Boston's famed Arthur D. Little Inc. (1955 gross: $11 million), whose 800-man research staff has developed products ranging from rubber cement to a better...
...manure dealer, who happened, by careful coincidence, to be just as devout a Buddhist as the Samians. Maki passed on all the gifts and made his pitch: as a Buddhist, his trek up Manaslu would be a pilgrimage, not a desecration. What's more, he was prepared to hire some porters right there in Sama. The expedition was permitted to proceed...