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Word: hire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taking a second look, N.I.T. admits and reforms the promising. It rides them hard, and those who respond get immediate jobs in the booming aerospace industry at starting salaries of $600 to $700 a month. Some companies are so avid for N.I.T.'s products that they try to hire entire graduating classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Company-to-Campus | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...town is divided, just as the modern world is divided, into two armed camps. In each of them, like a land-grabbing cattleman surrounded by gunmen, sits a vicious little warlord surrounded by swordsmen. Enter the hero (Toshiro Mifune), a strong, silent, shabby samurai whose sword is for hire and no questions asked. He looks the situation over: sheriff bullied, citizens cowed, streets full of corpses, business at a standstill. Grimly he reflects: "Better if all these men were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Japanese Apocalypse | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Trinity Methodist Church (salary: $11,000): "It would cost me $300 a month to rent a home like the parsonage I have now." Although relatively few ministers in the larger Protestant denominations have time to accept sideline jobs, their wives do; in Miami, Baptist congregations commonly allow ministers to hire their own wives as church secretaries. Many congregations provide expense accounts, vacation hideaways, cars and car allowances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastoral Pay | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...difficulty getting faulty sets repaired or replaced at no charge. The larger rental companies maintain mobile repair vans with parts, test benches and generators; one firm handles 30,000 service calls a week. Says a satisfied London renter: "By the time you've finished buying a set on hire-purchase,* it isn't worth anything anyway. You have no equity. What's the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: TV for Rent | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...audience are aware that the same actor is Father Dolan, an old Franciscan monk, and the president of the university. Offstage, when Swift is not changing his makeup for a new role, he is busy sending telegrams to producers, begging them to come see him and-who could resist?-hire him for a Broadway show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How To Be Rich Though a Pencil | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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