Word: hire
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...decrees handed down by Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet officers, affirmative action has permeated personnel offices and public bureaucracies. It may be difficult to frame precise formulas to cure past discrimination without discriminating anew. Yet many employers have begun to feel their way to a commonsense approach, trying to hire and promote minorities and women wherever possible without discriminating against white males at the same time. Not only is this a salve to the corporate conscience, but it is proving a good way to recruit talented employees...
According to Drosnin, it was the facts about $100,000 of Hughes money in Bebe Rebozo's safe-deposit box that set off the Watergate break-in. "I want to hire Bob Kennedy's entire organization," wrote Hughes to Maheu shortly after hearing that the Senator was dead. Maheu managed to get the lobbying services < of Lawrence O'Brien, Kennedy's campaign manager and later Democratic Party chairman. Because of O'Brien's connection with Hughes, Drosnin argues, Nixon feared disclosure of the cash in his friend's bank and ordered the plumbers into O'Brien's Watergate office...
...abortion will be unenforceable. I respond, first, that we should not make our laws on the basis of what is easily enforceable, rather we should employ the resources to enforce them to the extent necessary. We cannot abandon laws against murder because people will do it anyway, we should hire the police to stop as many of them as we can. But second, empirically, legal abortions, since 1973, have taken a 120-fold increase, while illegal abortions have taken a four-fold decrease. On balance, there are 40 times the number of abortions now as before Roe, 1.5 million...
...first rescue operation was that of Harvard Magazine, the University's alumni magazine, which had had a history of poor financial management. Officials with the magazine attributed the magazine's recent recovery to Rotner's business acumen and ability to hire sound managers...
...Coop last holiday season hired a double-decker bus to shuttle people from other parts of Cambridge to its Square location because store officials feared subway construction was creating traffic and general image problems that were keeping shoppers away. The store will not need to hire the bus this year...