Word: hire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME comes tumbling after. What Adler would do is to identify philosophy with religion. Though this is not a new enterprise, Adler thinks that he has given it what it has for centuries lacked: a sound logical basis. Modern logicians (fusty gentlemen who, as a rule, do not hire others to do their doctoral research), many of whom are not positivists, refuse to preside at Adler's shotgun marriage. Thus Adler's quarrel is not only with positivism, but with all logical analysis. While he may be "probably one of the best minds at large today...
Weil, who once tried to hire Chicago's Philosopher Mortimer Adler (TIME, March 17) as a Vice President in Charge of Thinking, thought that "retailing is a backward and disorganized industry." He would also admit that Macy's had lost ground, was not growing in Manhattan as it had done in the '20s. He prophesied: "It will do so again in the '50s. If it doesn't, I will have been a failure...
...suggest that General Wood would be smart to hire Artist Artzybasheff as colonel in charge of the packaging division...
...chief of other ex-Havas men who had taken over the agency's old headquarters and started A.F.P. as its successor. They wanted to make it independent, but, unable to raise capital, had to get government help. In return, the government insisted on the right to hire or fire A.F.P.'s director general...
Throughout Latin America, Sears' policy is to hire and train local workers; in Mexico only 14 of its 2,000 employees are North Americans. "All we want is loyalty, honesty and hard work," says Sears' Venezuelan boss. "We'll teach them the rest." One thing that Sears has already taught its competitors in Latin America is the basic tenet of all U.S. retailers-big volume, not high markups, is the key to profits. And Sears stores have already caused general price reductions in their localities...