Word: hire
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...stands, for example, there is a disincentive for professors--even in small courses--to grade the work of their students. If they hire a graduate student grader or two, these students can earn surprisingly good money and finance their educations. Were a professor to grade these exams, however, he would not only have to invest his time, but he would deprive his graduate students of their supper. Correcting such perverse educational incentives will not come easy, but respect for undergraduates and their educations demands a concerted effort...
Worse still, desperation often forces faculty members to hire students from outside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for teaching support. Law, Business and--worst of all--Kennedy school students all wind up responsible for the education of scores of undergrads, despite their lack of training in the fields they wind up teaching. And so the argument advanced by defenders of the status-quo--that section leaders are the distinguished scholars of the future--falls apart, a disingenuous defense of an unacceptable situation...
...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the 1963 film starring Sophia Loren, postwar Naples was awash with contraband cigarettes. Today the Italian city is afflicted with a more serious criminal commodity: heroin. Addiction among the young is so widespread that parents have begun to hire private eyes to keep a drug watch on their children...
...have concluded that employing couples is sometimes good business. Indeed, antinepotism rules are slowly being lifted at companies across the nation. O'Melveny & Myers, one of the nation's largest law firms, has engaged several married couples. Martin Marietta, the giant aerospace and defense contractor, actually has an affirmative hire-a-couple policy. The company believes it is a sound strategy to lure and retain top people. Its Denver division now adds about 100 couples a year, notes Personnel Administrator Joseph Weiner. And there is no charity involved. "Eight out of ten times the recruited person is married to someone...
...success are already starting to suffer. The city could also be hurt by a falloff in tax revenue from the financial industry, which last year amounted to $150 million, or 12% of the tax base. Anticipating a drop, Mayor Edward Koch last week put a freeze on plans to hire 5,200 new workers, including 1,948 police officers...