Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends and players of the carillon who gather yearly to talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment. The man at the keyboard was Guild President Ronald Barnes...
...major difficulty of AIESEC in the United States, however, is jobs for Europeans in American firms. While France and Germany arrange nearly 1500 jobs between them last year, the United States was able to set up only 275. American firms have traditionally been reluctant to hire foreign trainees for the summer. The firms hesitate because they do not know the capabilities of the students and fear their knowledge of English will be inadequate...
...attitude of European industry to an exchange program is more receptive. European firms have always been very free in doling out traineeships. If they can not lure their particular trainee into future work with the company, they assume they can hire someone who has been trained elsewhere...
...United States, however, businessmen seek assurance that they can hire the trainee for later work. AIESEC's greatest success has been among American firms with international branches; these companies hope in most cases to hire the student for future work in overseas branches...
Because they give businessmen both the impetus and the means to hire, build and modernize, profits are the power behind economic exuberance. By that gauge, the current prolonged business expansion stands a good chance of continuing. The Commerce Department reported last week that profits after taxes rose to a near-record annual rate of $26.8 billion in the second quarter, up 5½ from 1963's first three months. More important, profits have been moving up for nine quarters-about twice as long as in any previous postwar recovery...