Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June tax bill demanded that federal agencies hire only three new workers to replace every four who leave Government service until federal manpower is scaled down to the 2,366,000 level of June 30, 1966. The formula is only theoretically simple. The beleaguered postal service protested that it could not reduce its payroll of 710,000 without either 1) having to pay vastly increased overtime, thus virtually canceling its savings, or 2) seriously curtailing deliveries and service. Postmaster General Marvin Watson warned the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that he would be forced to shut down...
...retain through popular elections. Under the new document, which will be presented to the people in a referendum on Sept. 29, the government at some unspecified time will recall King Constantine from his Roman exile. But the constitution strips him of his two most important prerogatives-the power to hire and fire Premiers and to command the armed forces. In the future, Greece's King will be obliged to name as Premier whoever is chief of the leading party in Parliament. The Premier, in turn, will become a sort of super-President who will run the armed forces...
...store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers for a wedding in Nigeria and smoked kippers...
...Crooks himself, the summer and winter are inseparable experiences. While also serving as Master of Dudley House, the House for Harvard undergraduates who live off-campus, Crooks begins preparing for the next summer in September, "as soon as department chairmen return from their vacations in Europe." He must hire professors, both from Harvard and outside, after consultation with the department chairmen...
...fact, it symbolizes an upheaval that has churned the entire record industry since the advent of rock music. It began when the established record companies wanted to capture the new sounds for their labels, but found that their over-30 staff producers-the men who select songs, assign arrangers, hire musicians and supervise recording sessions-were not tuned in. As 46-year-old John K. Maitland, President of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records, puts it: "Our Brooks Brothers suits couldn't link up with these hippie artists...