Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty-five years ago, as a young sophomore, I wrote to The Crimson to protest then-president Conant's announcement that he would refuse to hire a member of the Communist Party, no matter what his qualifications (I say "his" because there was hardly any chance that Harvard might hire a woman, communist or otherwise). Each generation, it seems, has its own test of conscience. Why do the presidents of Harvard always fail? Robert Paul Wolff...
When Henry Rosovsky was named dean in 1973, his mother said, "When they go to people like you, things must be pretty bad," he recalled. Rosovsky who served until 1984 said that he believed departments should seek to hire stars in their fields...
...spend and invest their money rather than allow shills for favored industries to use the tax code to tinker with the economy? Get real! Such a drastic overhaul would amount to putting the public interest ahead of special interests -- in this case nearly every interest with enough clout to hire a lobbyist. And everybody knows the political process does not work that...
...share the band's life-or-death dedication to the music. "We're doing a pretty damn good job of playing good, honest rock 'n' roll," Kempner says. "We haven't sent people running to the exits. We make believers out of them. Even the crew people that we hire have to respond in one way or another to the music itself. Anybody who is going to touch this music in any way must have his hands clean...
...were in contempt for ignoring his back-to-work order earlier in the week. Blake had ruled that the garbage constituted a "clear and present danger" to the public health and that the strikers should start cleaning up the mess. Mayor W. Wilson Goode then announced that he could hire 2,400 sanitation workers in 24 hours and threatened to fire workers who defied the ; court's back-to-work order. "Tell them to try me," said Goode...