Word: hire
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...true, says Weinstein, "that I steal jokes. But I have a very good memory and love to tell them." And he relishes the opportunity to get up and perform. "I'm available for hire if the Conservative Club wants me. No political distinctions here. And if Quincy House lets me perform at my last talent show this year. I can promise a very nice surprise...
...economists bristle even more, however, at Harvard's unusual efforts over the past two years to hire two established and prominent macroeconomists tenured at MIT; Dombusch and Stanley Fischer. Both eventually resisted Harvard's offers, but MIT economists are still shaken from the tussle...
Some professors date Harvard and MIT's rivalry in economics back to an unmistakable controversy in the early '40s when Paul Samuelson, then a graduate student at Harvard, was passed over for a faculty appointment at the University. At the time, widespread reports attributed Harvard's failure to hire Samuelson to anti-Semitism...
...general, Harvard and MIT do not engage in financial bidding wars over professors. The salary packages and benefits the two universities promise a scholar they hope to hire are not apparently the factors that govern an economist's choice...
Complicating Harvard's personnel skirmishes with MIT are the two institution's clashing methods of recruiting tenured professors. MIT, says Brown, lends to hire young economists and "grow them up in the department." Harvard on the other hand, typically considers only professors with tenure else here to fill its own tenure vacancies...