Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking business to lower its standards or to hire less competent workers." Gartner continued, "but to seek out qualified Negroes and to examine hiring qualifications to insure that they are fair and reasonable...
...competitors and his readiness to adopt the modern techniques and philosophy of capitalism. This was possible because, though all major Yugoslav industry is owned by the state, the state itself does not run businesses. Workers' councils that operate somewhat like boards of directors are elected by the workers, hire a managing director and hold him responsible for the firm's profitability. Marton had to overcome his cautious board's objection to his ambitious expansion program...
...jobs will be grabbed away. Instead of contributing to unemployment, women have tended to take the kind of jobs that men seldom strive for. In fact, the new U.S. equal-pay law may cost women some of their jobs because-other things being equal-many companies prefer to hire men. Many women prove reluctant to take on heavy responsibility or to boss men on the job. Supervisors complain that they have a higher absenteeism rate than men-6.5 days a year v. five days-partly because men do not have babies. Some labor leaders are also cool to women workers...
...ministers, play the game of je souffre, their long faces proclaiming their suffering even while their hands reach out for matabich-the bribe. The bribe rarely works for long. Says one would-be fixer with frank wistfulness: "You can't buy these guys. All you can do is hire them for the afternoon...
...action begins. Boy must get girl, lose girl, and get her back; or, in the metaphor of the play, the wall must be destroyed, be reconstructed, and finally be surmounted. To end the feud and crush the wall, the hire the Narrator, who is now a "Professional Abductor" known as El Gallo (he carries a card). The rape is a grand success (that is, it is a magnificent failure) and the act closes with the wall dismantled, and the families united in bliss, apparently about to live happily ever after...