Word: hire
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Larry D. Benson, chairman of the English department, said recently that "We have expanded," but that until the department can hire more professors "we hope students will avail themselves of the opportunity" afforded them by those four limited-enrollment courses Needless to say, this sounds rather cheap to upperclassmen frantically looking for advisers with interest and ability in theory...
...Fred Pierce, the aggressive former vice president of TV planning and development who had become president of ABC Television in 1974, engineered a stunning turnaround. His first major move was to hire Silverman away from CBS to head ABC's programming department. Under the guidance of Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," ABC began turning out a rapid parade of hits. Many of them were raucous, youth-oriented comedies (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley); others exploited buxom blonds and sexual humor ( (Three's Company, Charlie's Angels); still others were sentimental puffballs from Producer Aaron Spelling (Love Boat, Fantasy Island...
Moreover, Iacocca likes getting his way in the world quickly and unambiguously. He is a bossy boss. Heads of corporations can fold whole departments, hire anybody they choose and, in Iacocca's phrase, shuck the losers. Presidents, on the other hand, are hemmed in, constrained by the Executive bureaucracy, checked and balanced by Congress. In the give and take of governing, Iacocca's virtues--frankness, boldness--might not serve him so well. "He's a man who wants his hands on all the levers," says White House Aide Craig Fuller, the Administration official friendliest with Iacocca. Could a President Iacocca...
...control future expenditures, the company wants a two-tier wage scale of the sort that is becoming an industry standard, under which new employees would be paid less than present workers. In addition, Pan Am wants the right to hire more foreign nationals for overseas flights. The unions see these & measures as a threat to job security for U.S.-based workers. Said Mary Annis Moore, a representative of the Independent Union of Flight Attendants: "What Pan Am is doing is anti-American...
...long as you don't wear paisley with paisley it doesn't matter says Wayne A Jefferson director of Test Prep Services in Cambridge. "We hire out people used on their intellectual abilities and what they wear is up to them as long as it's not shabby...