Word: hire
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That provision was tested this summer when the Business School decided to hire the Marriott Corporation, a national food chain, to manage its dining halls. Officials called it an effort to bring the school's facilities up to restaurant standards...
...labor force of 630, assets of $817,000 and 1983 profits exceeding $242,000. The state-owned factory's success is the result of a new policy by the Chinese government that has given virtually unheard-of powers to managers in consumer-goods industries, including expanded rights to hire and fire, to lay down work rules and to award bonuses for good performance...
...recent Congress: the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which would try to bring some sense to immigration policies. Passed in both houses, but in different forms, it would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who can prove longtime residency in the U.S., and would apply penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in the future. Mexican Americans in particular oppose the bill on the ground that employers, fearing fines or even jail, will refuse to hire all Hispanics, including American citizens...
Wilson never could substantiate that claim in court. But it fed already widespread suspicions about U.S. intelligence practices and influenced the only acquittal that the arms dealer received after his empire went to smash. At his 1983 trial for attempting to hire three Cubans to assassinate a Libyan dissident in 1976, one of the Cubans testified that he had indeed worked with Wilson in both the CIA and Naval Intelligence, albeit before Wilson had put out the murder contract. The reaction of a member of the predominantly black jury appeared to reflect public opinion at the time: "This seemed like...
...halted. The problem, according to Brittan, is that labor is taking the fruits of the economic upswing in the form of higher pay rather than in more jobs. The spurt in corporate profits, up 25% last year and expected to continue rising, could gradually encourage employers to hire more workers, Brittan believes...