Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determine how much cocaine he could hide in its shaft for a drug-smuggling scheme, buying a cashier's check to pay for a car he had bought under an assumed name, and collecting some gambling debts. Government prosecutors charge that Harrelson, 44, convicted once of murder for hire (he served five years before a parole in 1978), killed Wood for a $250,000 fee from a Las Vegas gambler and drug smuggler. To demonstrate his prowess as a professional cardsharp, Harrelson offered the court an impromptu exhibition. No thanks, said U.S. District Judge William Sessions...
Ever since affirmative-action programs were first launched in the 1960s, the absence of significant numbers of blacks in managerial ranks has been a source of frustration and embarrassment to U.S. business. Many companies make strenuous efforts to recruit, hire and nurture black men and women. So too have blacks striven to meet the demands and pressures of corporate life. Yet there is a growing debate over how well business has done its job, how well blacks are doing their jobs, and how many invisible barriers keep blacks from important jobs that carry big responsibilities and big salaries...
...Newfoundland. Because Andy already had his own equipment and several years of field experience under his belt the most recent of which was the year between high school and college spent observing and photographing bears in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park the Canadian scientist was happy to hire a person like Andy. Originally taken on as a general assistant who repaired equipment and answered passengers questions, Young persuaded his employer of the value of making a film about the tour to show to prospective passengers. His employer agreed and Young spent the rest of the summer filming...
...school plans to hire a new admissions officer next month, K-School officials said. But they refused to comment on the responsibilities of the new officer...
...decision was particularly gratifying, Sullivan explained, because of the "adversity" the rent board had overcome in preparing its appeal. In February, the council's conservative Independent faction and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci denied City Manager Robert W. Healy funds to hire an outside attorney to file the appeal of Sherman's decision, despite the unified support of the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association councilors...