Word: hire
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...Chicago's South Side, would receive a variety of reductions in capital gains and corporate income taxes. Local governments would also be obliged to contribute to the endeavor by reducing property taxes inside the zone by 5% annually for four years. In return, the firms would have to hire at least 50% of their company's work force from the local population. Part of the original plan was that the industrial zone would be dispensed from many heavy Government regulations, but Kemp felt that this was politically impossible. He still hopes to include it in future projects...
...Journal likes to hire reporters when they are young, malleable and ambitious-typically with a liberal arts background and two or three years' experience on a daily newspaper. Although senior reporters at the Journal are well paid (more than $50,000 a year in some cases), young reporters start at $16,000 and early in their careers often earn less than counterparts at other large papers. What is more, the Journal's tightly edited format prevents most reporters from getting on Page One more than once a month or so, and even when they do, bylines are small...
...name and picture, including one day of his time to shoot the ad, is $50,000. But IMG generally insists on a minimum two-year deal with a 15% fee increase the second year. Budget-minded advertisers willing to settle for less than No. 1 one can hire Vitas Gerulaitis for a modest $30,000 annualy, Skier Jean-Claude Killy for $25,000, Golfer Ben Crenshaw for $20,000 or twelfth-ranked tennis player Peter Fleming for $15,000. But Borg is the one they want...
...every five applicants wins entry into one of the country's 63 universities or 800 technical institutes. Competition is especially stiff for the top universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions. According to Izvestiya, she "accepted almost anything as a bribe, from...
...another case that came to light last week, a Communist cadre named Hou Li used forged letters of introduction to hire a large dance hall in the name of the People's Liberation Army. Then he proceeded to make a killing by selling overpriced tickets to a ball that he arranged to be held there. His punishment: two years in a work camp...