Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jellyfish. When Parliament adjourned, the rebel Ministers took their case to the people, defying Banda's ban on public meetings. Banda defended himself by charging that the rebels "tried to hire a witch doctor" to murder him. Snorted Banda: "I am a Prime Minister with a spine, not a jellyfish kind of Prime Minister who is afraid of his subordinates - so now they have to kill...
...defendant knows this. As a result, his first and last words in court are almost always a confession of guilt and a plea for mercy. After he has been formally charged, a defendant may hire a lawyer, and many do, though the courts generally look down on defense counsel. Nor is a defendant's morale helped by the fact that his head is shaved like a convict's as soon as he is jailed for investigation...
...wants to follow in her father's journalistic path in Denmark, has been working for TIME in Manhattan. Watching her progress, and recalling that he has represented TIME in Denmark since 1949, her father has let it be known that he hopes "some day TIME will hire a new stringer, and this time a girl, and that the cable address can then be preserved...
...Post from Australia at the end of a six-month search for a worthy successor to Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who left Denver for a better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted no time bidding...
...accepts, and some ronin have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities. He also suggests a nationwide system of entrance exams, like the U.S. College Boards, which would rank students by ability so that the less qualified would accept admission at less-than-Ivy schools, thus giving every roaming ronin a home...