Word: hire
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...even more horrendous than that revealed in the Simpson trial--and he is no fool. Still, prosecutors, knowing Fuhrman's history, decided to have the detective testify. That gave Cochran the opening to cast the trial in racial terms, which worked because Simpson was wealthy enough to hire lawyers and investigators to dig up proof of racially motivated police misconduct. It is no more unethical for Simpson's team to employ such a strategy than it was for Clarence Thomas to claim he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching" during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. As Cochran explained...
Weld said the lower cost to businesses would allow them to expand and hire more employees, therefore boosting the economy...
...director asking the tough questions was Donald Perkins, former chairman of the Jewel food store company, who insisted that outside directors hire their own lawyer to help protect them against potential shareholder lawsuits. That irritated Levin, who seemed to feel that the outside directors were exhaustively scrutinizing his presentation of the facts, according to a board member. The biggest issue for Perkins was the uncertain influence of cable king John Malone, whose 21% holding in Turner Broadcasting would be converted via a complex structure to a nearly 9% stake in Time Warner. The discussions went on over three days...
This is no abstract investigation. Goleman is looking for antidotes to restore "civility to our streets and caring to our communal life." He sees practical applications everywhere for how companies should decide whom to hire, how couples can increase the odds that their marriages will last, how parents should raise their children and how schools should teach them. When street gangs substitute for families and schoolyard insults end in stabbings, when more than half of marriages end in divorce, when the majority of the children murdered in this country are killed by parents and stepparents, many of whom say they...
Despite the preliminary discussion about preregistration by the Faculty Council last spring, professors seem to be willing to continue xeroxing extra syllabi, even if it means not knowing how many teaching fellows to hire...