Word: hire
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Such delights came less frequently as the nation's colleges moved through the storms of the '60s. Trilling spoke out bitterly against the "ideology of irrationalism" and the idea that knowledge can be attained through "intuition, inspiration, revelation." Denouncing the pressures to hire more blacks and women as professors, he complained that some groups "have not yet produced a large number of persons trained for the academic profession." In reply some younger colleagues at Columbia began to feel that Trilling's appreciation of artists was limited to restrained and ironic intellectuals like himself...
...Bank estimates that one out of every four of Japan's debt-laden companies is operating in the red, and in a nation where unemployment has been almost unknown, some university seniors face trouble getting a job. One survey of 1,586 corporations found 511 planning not to hire new graduates next year...
...group of laws which went into effect in the summer of 1974 does much to restrict management's right to hire and fire employees. The employer must give at least one month's notice of dismissal, with older workers entitled to up to six month's notice. Unreasonable dismissals are illegal with the employer bearing the burden of proof when challenged by the unions and the employee retaining his job at full pay pending a court decision. If the employer lays off workers, he must do so according to seniority with employees over 45 receiving double seniority. Employees retain seniority...
...Nunn, a longtime Republican operative, quit as the campaign's director of organization and angrily accused Callaway of incompetence. Finance Chairman David Packard complains that fund raising is lagging and implies that one cause has been interference from Callaway. Says Packard: "Bo tried to tell me who to hire and who not to hire, but that's straightened...
...performance mostly on poor management. The findings read like a horror story in bland bureaucratic prose: employees confused about their responsibilities and shifted from job to job so frequently that they never learned their jobs; a near absence of planning; managers unaware of how many staffers they could hire; offices that were unclean and unsafe; chronic shortages of supplies; employees "indulging in frequent coffee breaks, extended lunch periods and early departures." Worst of all, the state study found, the IBES was still using computer programs written twelve years ago for less complex machines than it now owns. Says John...