Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genius for decentralization, the Constitution's writers left education in the laps of the states, which handed it over to local communities. Today nearly all responsibility is vested in 198,108 members of 49,477 school boards. The schools they command reflect vastly different standards. The . teachers they hire receive grossly varying salaries. The results range from splendid to shameful...
Mather traveled 2,000 miles a month to get public support for a "freedom bill." When it passed three years ago, the trustees finally had the right to hire teachers...
...dreaded camps-of-no-return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery...
...fallout hazards and the need for privately built shelters, 2) promise to survey shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also cabled the House Appropriations Committee, asking for a $12 million budget item to hire state and city civil-defense experts, provided that Civil Defense Mobilizer Hoegh approves local civil-defense plans...
...Soon they were producing Quetta's first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field of journalism." But then, Quetta's weird weeklies had already, in a sense, done that...