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Word: hire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fired on the spot, and suspected users are urged to enter rehabilitation clinics. Hundreds of companies are setting up programs to combat drugs, providing psychiatric counseling for employees, resorting to urinalysis to identify users, and in a few cases going so far as to install hidden video cameras or hire undercover agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...cocaine to jump-start their creative juices. Independent producers supply it to agency representatives on location. In a survey of 300 advertising directors conducted by Advertising Age magazine in August, 45 reported cases in which cocaine had been used as under-the- counter compensation. Sometimes, ad agency employees hire production companies to make commercials only if the firms offer bribes of cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...suffering from alcoholism, and have since been expanded to include drug abusers. The motivation behind the EAPs has been economic as well as humanitarian. Says Drug Consultant Ingebritson: "It's much easier to help a person who has been on the job for nine years than it is to hire and train someone to replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...other legitimate and quasi-legitimate weapons to use against pornographers. To begin with, hard-core pornography, or obscenity, as it is defined by the Supreme Court, is not protected by the Constitution. In Los Angeles, pandering statutes normally aimed at pimps have been invoked to prosecute those who hire actors or models to perform sex acts for the camera. In Memphis, as in many other cities, prosecutors and police regularly harass porn dealers by hauling them in, then letting them go. Some local health codes are also used to keep porn establishments in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Give-and-Take on Pornography | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Students have charged that the new alcohol policy, adopted in October, has dramatically increased the cost of successful house parties. House committees, students say, have been forced to seek alternative means--including creative themes and expensive bands--to lure partygoers, and have had to hire bouncers to check...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: College Urges Easing House Party Rules | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

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