Word: hire
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...ritual. With firm patents on its razor and blade, Gillette was unnicked by competition until the '20s, merged with its major rival (Auto Strop) in 1931. But mismanagement and a stock scandal during the '30s sent Gillette's sales tumbling, forcing the company in 1938 to hire Joseph P. Spang Jr. away from meat-packing Swift & Co. to straighten Gillette...
...friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just before deadline. Saarinen was never tardy because of carelessness; it was merely that he was such a perfectionist that he could not let a plan out of his office until the very last moment. As he himself said, he worked "in elephant time." But before his death last week...
...Johann Kepler published his remarkable studies on the orbital speed of planets. Two generations later, they were to lead Newton to the theory of gravitation, and in Kepler's own time they so impressed James I of England that he tried to hire the great German astronomer as an adviser to his court. Back home in Linz that same year, Kepler's mother was thrown into prison as a witch...
...even that persistent problem may be abating. As industrial production in June climbed to within a fraction of its prerecession peak, the average factory work week jumped to 40.1 hours, its prerecession level. To judge by past recessions, employers put their workers on longer weeks just before they hire new hands, and a marked rise in hours worked is followed by a spurt in employment an average of four months later...
...known, only a "predisposition" can be inherited-in ten states epileptics cannot marry, in 18 they can be sterilized. Federal law bars epileptic immigrants. Nowhere is the stigma felt more painfully than in job hunting, despite progress in recent years. The civil service, for example, will hire epileptics "provided that their seizures are adequately controlled and their placements selective." In a recent survey, 73% of Arizona manufacturing firms said they would not hire epileptics. Reason: fear that they are accident-prone...