Word: hire
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...Wants to Hire Lawyer...
When contacted, he proposed that the union hire a lawyer to look into the situation, and perhaps arrange a mediation meeting with the University. "The officers have not spent one cent for legal fees," he said...
Other big unions apparently have not been hurt by Taft-Hartley. But it probably has hit some weak unions. Under Taft-Hartley, workers striking for economic reasons -may not vote in plant elections. Hence, an employer can hire non-union workers, hold an election and exclude the striking workers. Dwight Eisenhower views this as a "union busting" license, and wants to prohibit such votes until the strike is at least four months old. Even so, there is little solid evidence of Taft-Hartley's overall effects, good...
...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
Byzantine Deceit. Like a lot of Frankish knights of the day,11th century Roussel de Balliol offered his sword for hire-and even then, before the Crusades, the steadiest work around was fighting the infidel. When Roussel and his troop of 300 mailed warriors got a chance to hire out to the Emperor of Byzantium to fight the Turks, he jumped at the chance. Out in Asia Minor, at the very frontiers of the Christian world, there were chances which a mercenary might never have in Europe...