Word: hire
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...come to own a large industrial empire which is the country's largest single employer. Safran refers to conflicts between the Histradrut and the government and the inconsistency of its roles as an employer and as a trade union. He also predicts that as more and more co-operatives hire outside labor, rather than taking in additional members, they will become little more than joint-stock companies, and what was originally a socialist trade union will come to be dominated by employers. Eventually, he concludes, it will be necessary to restrict the organization to trade union functions...
...smart enough to be Communists." To the business community the picketers are irresponsible, men who couldn't be employed. "This is hardly a strike," said one operator, "because the men involved haven't left their jobs--they didn't have any to start with. No one would want to hire these trouble-makers...
Last spring, in a long-overdue action, the City Council voted, eight to one, to hire a professional traffic engineer. After searching the Eastern Seaboard, City Manager Curry decided on Robert E. Rudolph, then an assistant in the Baltimore traffic department. Curry offered Rudolph $12,000 a year for the new job, promised him a staff and a budget, and told him to do something about Cambridge traffic...
What troubles Cornell is lack of any central force. It is run by faculty committees so fiercely independent that major change is difficult. By long tradition, the president's powers are limited. He cannot hire or fire professors, or even expel students. In 1958, student rioters pelted the president with eggs, chanting "We want Malott shot!" He wanted the ringleader to go degreeless, but a faculty committee turned him down. When he tried to start a Dartmouth-style "great issues" course, he was also turned down, more or less because it was his idea...
...answer to rumors that the bakery has a small job turn-over which makes job openings infrequent, Day said "this may well be." "Our position is that equal opportunity employers have an obligation beyond the willingness to hire any applicant. Past experience throughout the country has shown that Negroes shrink from applying to companies with a history of discrimination...