Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Health Service, the state-financed system that employs about 1 million workers and treats 30 million patients a year. Thatcher's plan, which must still be approved by Parliament, allows the best-managed of the nation's 2,000 state-run hospitals to form self-governing trusts that can hire outside staff, pay higher wages to . doctors and negotiate salaries for nursing personnel. The plan encourage doctors to shop around for the best prices on hospital services, and permits them to refer patients to hospitals outside their district...
Nothing is certain, goes the old saw, but death and taxes. Death, yes. But probably not taxes -- if, that is, one is wealthy enough to hire lawyers and accountants with a working knowledge of loopholes in the Internal Revenue code. Maybe the rich can't take it with them, like other mortals, but they don't have to leave very much of it to Uncle Sam either...
...dance/performance. This will not always be the case, but it is the only way that we can pay the costs of providing such quality entertainment so regularly. Learning from Cookin's fatal mistake of four years ago, and strictly remaining within the rules and the law, Cookin' will hire police and a University-sanctioned Beverage Authorization Team (BAT) for each event at which alcohol is served...
...Bundy was the kind of guy fathers like their daughters to date or the kind of guy that buttoned-down law firms prefer to hire. In college, Bundy was a B-plus student who reportedly loved children and poetry. Before he began his killing spree in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Bundy, then the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Commission, was a rising star in Seattle Republican Party politics...
...shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more at a time. Though gun dealers in some states are required to report multiple purchases, federal agents...