Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the board attributes the MBTA's persistent financial troubles to wasteful emplyment practices, it was further infuriated when King's acting secretary of transportation, Barry M. Locke, announced that he will hire 250 new employees...
...superstition. My business in America is run just the way you might expect. But here-there are maybe only 100 businessmen in Taiwan who still use feng shui, but I think it's best to do everything you can to make sure your business goes well. So I hire him. I believe him. And his father, he's even better. I hired him once before, but now he's getting too old to go around. It's strange--it's a family secret, passed down for years in that family, but I think I can feel some of it. When...
...replies. "I always hire him. He is very good. Whenever he approves of a building, the business does well in it. I don't understand it, but I do believe it. He can tell by looking at the layout of a place how the business will be." We drive for a little while as I mull over this statement of conviction...
Alex and I are drinking in a bar in Little Australia, a section of Taipei near the Ambassador Hotel where Australian businessmen go to drink, carouse, hire prostitutes. The bars have names like Victoria Pub. The Ploughman, the Waltzing Matilda. Alex, who is New York Chinese, looks around us at the beaming, red faces of drunken Australians and observes that there is nothing in the whole goddamn place that's written in Chinese. We decide we have to do something very Taiwanese the next day. We take a bus to White Sand Bay, one of two sandy beaches...
...study failed to examine departments' reluctance to hire young scholars--a practice that has cost many promising academics tenured positions here and that has unquestionably helped keep the number of minorities and women on the Faculty low. Until departments rid themselves of this aversion to youth, all scholars--but especially women and minorities--will find it difficult to work their way up to a tenured professorship here. The earlier Harvard catches the top minority and women scholars, the more likely they will remain here...