Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s will be to try to limit the number of successful women." Says she: "The men are starting to worry about being run over by hordes of ambitious young women, and the woman who tells me she is not afraid of discrimination is too stupid for me to hire...
University-City communication was also the focus of Councilor David A Wylie's recommendation that Cambridge hire an architect to give design consultation on the Fogg Museum's proposed bridge-over Broadway...
...council unanimously decided to request that City Manager Robert W. Healy hire an architect, and Healy said he would try to find funds to do so in the city budget...
...science is not always the best way to achieve a defined aim. When we need to wire new lighting for our house, we never hire a physicist to perform a complicated array of calculations; he could easily make a mistake and the house would burn down. Instead we call on an electrician who might know nothing about the scientific theory of electricity, but who has learned by custom and experience what sort of wiring works best...
...historic highs, the threat to managements is likely to come mainly from people who already hold substantial blocks of stock. Says Joe Parella, a general partner at New York's First Boston Corp.: "Proxy battles are a cheap way to take over a company. All you do is hire a smart lawyer and run ads." That can often cost anywhere from $1 million to $10 million. Gaining outright control of large firms could run into the billions...