Word: hire
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There were other suggestions as well. Wisconsin's Proxmire recommended that the Senate and House appropriations committees hire private business-efficiency firms to review the President's budget requests and evaluate the effectiveness of Government agencies. Okla homa's Democratic Representative Ed Edmondson wanted more use of electronic equipment, including closed-circuit television of sessions of both houses to members' offices, and electronic voting. New York's Democratic Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who recently had an efficiency expert study his own office staff's procedure, thought every Congressman should have access to such help. Rosenthal...
Webb & Knapp is so short of cash that it could not even afford to hire an auditor and issue its annual report, an omission that caused the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban trading in its stock. Fearful that the company would go broke before bondholders could be paid off, Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., trustee for $4,298,200 in Webb & Knapp debenture bonds, petitioned the courts for reorganization of the company under the Bankruptcy Act. Besieged by a growing army of creditors and unable for once to raise the money to pay them off, Bill Zeckendorf...
...situation has resulted from a vicious circle. As clubs began to be invaded by the hillbillies, jazzlovers became alienated and retreated to their FM radios and phonographs. Then, as fewer people went to hear jazz, clubs found it more and more profitable to hire more folksingers. This alienated the jazzlovers still more, and a downward spiral has developed...
...landslide came as a very mixed blessing to President Joseph Kasavubu, who saw in Tshombe a powerful potential rival for his own job as President. During his five-year term, which ends in December, Kasavubu had used his constitutional powers to hire and fire three Premiers, and he seemed to be moving against Moise. In a radio broadcast...
...JOBS. All over the South Negroes are now holding jobs once reserved for whites only. In some cities Negroes are working as clerks in variety and department stores; some banks have hired Negro tellers "and put them in the very front window." Much of this, of course, is mere "tokenism" or business opportunism; sometimes Negroes are hired to halt boycotts or draw Negro customers. Still, it is a sign of progress, as is the fact that, partly under federal pressure, many defense firms have tried valiantly to upgrade Negro jobs and increase Negro employment. There will be greater opportunities when...