Word: hire
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...under," causing a driver to lose control. G.M., which eventually redesigned the system, at first did not even recall the model for checking. But executives were disturbed enough by Nader's charges to hire a Washington law firm to look into the matter. The lawyer, in turn, engaged the Vincent Gillen private detective agency to trail Nader. Purely on a fishing expedition that was to find nothing, the agency's head urged his men to uncover what they could about Nader's "women, boys, etc." Tipped by friends that investigators were looking into his private life, Nader charged publicly that...
...luxury. He earns nothing from most of his work and supports himself by writing magazine articles and making public speeches for fees of $50 to $2,500. He refuses to divulge how much he earns, lest corporations find out how many investigators, if any, he can afford to hire. He turns down occasional six-figure offers from law firms and regularly shuns pleas for product endorsements. Partly because he knows that his personal purchases might be interpreted as a stamp of approval, Nader owns no major appliances, no television set, no car. Yet he refuses to acknowledge sacrifice or unusual...
...also expressed "disappointment" at yesterday's OBU action and reiterated the University's willingness to hire a percentage of non-white workers equal to the 9.3 per cent non-white population in Boston and Cambridge...
...students argued however, that the idea of blanket support would alienate some painters helpers and a majority of liberal students. They recommended that the meeting support only two of the demands-promote the painters' helpers and hire 20 per cent black and third world construction workers-as the central issues...
Other companies have used the single-policy idea and door-to-door peddling. They have even copied Penn Life's presentation-and have done less well. The company's personnel policy is more difficult to duplicate. As Beyer says: "From the minute we hire a man, he is in our house for the rest of his life-he, his wife, his children, his dreams become our responsibility. There is no firing in this company. A man has to be a thief to be fired...