Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your solution: Give all the power to one bureaucrat! Let him hire and fire at his pleasure and save governmental dignity ! The board is at least democratic. Why not advise alcoholics to switch to dope...
Since networks and stations had little detailed program information, TV Guide's Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional...
...company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...
Trouble Insurance. Some big corporations have found that one of the best kinds of insurance against trouble is to hire even more native personnel than local law and feeling demand. National Cash Register Co., which has always had a policy of hiring native employees, has only six foreign officials in Tokyo, all British; the other 739 employees are Japanese. As a result, the Japanese government has been much more friendly to N.C.R. than to any other foreign company...
...large-scale local recruiting. Outside Japan and the Philippines, there is a great shortage of employees trained for high-class technical or office work. The kind of experts foreign companies need are simply not available. Furthermore, a foreign company that sells service tends to lose its identity if it hires almost all natives. Manhattan's First National City Bank branch in Hong Kong started to hire native workers whenever possible but slowed down when it found that it was losing its identity as an American bank selling American service...