Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only recently that it has become more a war than a sport. Some Australians have been so worried by the slaughter that several states ruled that kangaroo hunters must be licensed, but this resulted in the buying up of licenses by wealthy landowners who turned right around and hired sharpshooters to get the job done. One estimate now places the registered kangaroo shooters in Queensland alone at close to 1,800, most of whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn up to $70 a day. To these gunslingers, the "sport" is more than mere extermination...
...still an establishment of men. Only one of every 39 lawyers is a woman, and the ratio has changed little in the past 20 years. Some big firms refuse to hire women lawyers. Some judges are undisguisedly hostile to them. To most male lawyers, in fact, their sisters in the law seem about as welcome as a mother-in-law, unfit for trial work, suited only for matrimonial cases or such back-room fields as estates and trusts...
...each meeting they attend, directors collect anywhere from $20 (American & Foreign Power) to $300 (Union Carbide). Some companies pay annual retainers, ranging up to General Mills's $10,000. But the responsibilities of sitting on a board usually exceed the rewards. "You couldn't hire many of these men for hundreds of dollars an hour," says American Motors Chairman Richard E. Cross. "They do it because they like business-the power and the thrust and the action...
...court, "where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." Since then, the court has handed down several related rulings, notably the Gideon decision affirming the right to court-appointed counsel in all criminal cases if a defendant cannot afford to hire a lawyer (TIME...
...specific problems of aesthetics and architectural style are inscrutable. Style will depend on location and the architect. Above all, however, the University should hire an individualistic architect, one who will avoid the common-place, impersonal tones of Quincy. No matter what its style, the Tenth House should be unique enough to suggest an image, to create a personality. Architecture alone cannot create the nirvana of Lowell's "community," but its importance is undeniable...