Word: hire
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...professors to delve into their material when perhaps the majority of students in attendance one day will not be in the next. It is hard to plan a class when you do not know if you will be lecturing to 15 or 50. And it makes it hard to hire teaching fellows when you must wait until the enrollment figures...
...life." Says William Lacy, chief strategist for Dole's presidential bid: "Without having significant support of the Christian right a Republican cannot win the nomination or the general election." Reed is so hot a commodity that the presidential campaign of Senator Phil Gramm of Texas offered to hire him as its political director, the No. 2 staff job. Reed declined. It would have been a demotion...
Presidential candidates are often unable to recall -- or reluctant to reveal -- deep, dark secrets; their aides are forced to hire special gumshoes to unearth them instead. In fact, as the 1996 presidential race gets under way, investigating the boss before an opponent does it for you has become as integral a part of fledgling campaigns as fund raising and free media are. "It's essential," said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "You really need to see where the other side is going to come at you." Done right, counter-oppo (short for counter-opposition research...
That was what Wilson's team learned last week. Even as the story leaked, the campaign had ready a four-page memorandum from John Davies explaining that in 1978 Wilson's ex-wife Betty Hosie had hired an undocumented housekeeper from Tijuana named Josefina Klag. The revelation was more than a little awkward-Wilson made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his re-election campaign for Governor. But Davies had to address two legal questions as well: Did the Wilsons "knowingly" hire an illegal immigrant, even though such hiring was not prohibited by law at that time? (No, says Davies: Even...
...moreover, France has a high level of structural unemployment that is aggravated by rigid labor laws and an expensive social welfare system. Chirac says he will offer employers a two-year exemption from payroll taxes and a $400 per month stipend for every long-term unemployed worker they hire. He pledges to lower income taxes and inheritance duties on businesses, exempt reinvested profits from taxation, and promote wage hikes to encourage consumption. "A franc put into a worker's pocket is not a franc taken out of the economy," he says...