Word: hire
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...untouched. Carter will require smaller companies to report price changes to the Council on Wage and Price Stability, while he is also going to raise the standards for pay increases. The latter move may be justified, but it is hardly a blow against inflation. In addition, the Council will hire more staffers. As Alfred Kahn concedes, "the wage and price program is always a kind of marginal thing...
...Great American Way: hire a newsman for $8 million so he can tell us about all those starving, homeless people around the world who don't even have enough money for a bowl of rice...
...interview guidelines, though, can be contradictory. "We cannot ask someone applying for a teller's job whether they have ever been arrested," bemoans a senior hiring executive of one Manhattan bank. "We can ask if they have ever been convicted of the crimes of breach of trust or theft because they are considered relevant to the job. But we cannot ask about rape or murder convictions because you cannot show a relationship between those and the job qualifications." Larry Vickery, director of employment relations for General Motors, joked that affirmative action guidelines are so complex that a company "might...
...will be time to put the former actor out to pasture. They said it in '76, when he almost scared Gerry Ford out of the nomination, but this time it's for real. If he's going to capture enough votes to be taken seriously, Reagan will have to hire more than a few pollsters to set him straight again. Only then will he dare to step out of the motor-cade, without fear of being run over by a sweat-suited Bush
...benefit of society at large is hardly egalitarian. The current composition of the army--30 per cent black and other third world people, the remainder largely poor and uneducated--reflects the result of this cruel exploitation at the hands of a middle class who can afford to hire mercenaries...