Word: hire
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Voluntary affirmative action. According to last week's ruling, companies and agencies have the option of adopting voluntary programs to hire and promote qualified minorities and women to correct a "manifest imbalance" in their representation in various job categories, even when there is no evidence of past discrimination. Decisions should not be made exclusively on the basis of race or sex, explains Assistant Professor Kathleen Sullivan of the Harvard Law School. However, these factors can now be legally weighed in the balance, says Sullivan, "with a thumb on the scale...
...COST of millions, elevator companies are hell-bent on undertaking the most heinous practical joke ever. Combing the world's fraternity alumni lists and fast-food restaurants for the most unpleasant people in existence, the elevator companies hire these monoliths to populate the elevators of American cities. Bonuses are awarded for employees who are able to shake their bodies and shout things like, "OH NO! IT'S SNAPPED! WE'RE GONNA FALL! AHHHHH...
...information it needs; certainly not. If we compare what we gave over the years with what we got, we without doubt gave much more in much more important fields than we received." Said Prime Minister Shamir of the convicted spy: "The State of Israel didn't hire him and didn't assign him espionage missions." As for Pollard, Shamir observed, his plight was a "human problem, maybe a moral problem," but it was "not a problem that the State of Israel must concern itself with...
...readers try to help people overcome their skepticism, and most teach psychic awareness courses out of their homes or in local community centers. Brown and McPherson recently began doing "psychic entertainment" where Brown says they hire themselves out to businesses or private parties to "entertain and educate" guests by "explaining' concept of psychic awareness, and then proceeding...
...Warsaw for roles in the classics. In New York City she shuffles around a decaying and almost bare tenement flat, hanging up tea bags to dry for reuse while intoning Lady Macbeth's hand- washing scene in an odd singsong with a thick Polish accent. No one will hire her, and even she can hear herself and understand...