Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better third-level carriers, including some of the scheduled services that the FAA calls "commuter air carriers," demand airline-style experience of their pilots-but most do not. At the bottom are the unscheduled "air taxis," many of which are Mom and Pop outfits that hire out for various chores and use smaller and less well-equipped planes than the commuters...
Hard Contract's protagonist is a toothy, vicious gunman-for-hire named Cunningham (James Coburn). In the employ of an anonymous corporation whose business is murder, Cunningham jets off for Europe with a "hard contract" to eliminate three top men who were themselves organization assassins. He manages well enough until he meets an attractive divorcee called Sheila (Lee Remick). Before anyone can say Philosophy in the Bedroom, Cunningham and Sheila are under the same bedspread, where they spend most of their time discussing doom, guilt, predestination, war, violence, murder and the population explosion...
...that state legislators can't pass effective social legislation as quickly as they pass laws to curb college and university rebels. I suppose it's cheaper and simpler to hire extra police to enforce the new laws than it is to reform the colleges and universities and make them more acceptable to the students. Unfortunately, the moderate student seeking legitimate change will suffer, and those of the extreme right and the New Left will delight in the continuing erosion of genuine democracy in this nation...
...Yeah, but it's still not short. Listen! Most employers-Uh!--know about that work-in SDS is planning. Uh! They're not too liberal. Uh! They don't trust you kids. Uh!. So they don't want to hire you. Uh! There...
...work for half of that 20 years from now, if the experience of their elders is any criterion. The crime of American business is that it pays more for a 25-year-old than for a 45-year-old. In fact, not one blue-chip company will even hire anyone over...