Word: hire
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...family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes his own libidinous tendencies slated for greatness...
...They hire lots of kids from class," says Anna Cao, a Rindge and Latin senior...
...higher level, trust is essential to the smooth functioning of an economically advanced society. The more costly checks an employer must institute to ensure his customers and employees aren't stealing, the fewer he is able to expand his business, the fewer people he is able to hire. One quick example which has stuck in my mind: an employee at Urban Outfitters in the square once told me that the store's annual losses to shoplifting were several times his annual salary...
...without the appropriate backgrounds playing dice with other people's money." Debbie Kline, of the independent Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (aces), calls the private agencies "vultures." And aces president Geraldine Jensen suggests that anyone who can afford to pay 30% of their support in fees could hire a lawyer: "At least then you can go to the bar association and complain. Here, you've got no recourse...
Senate Democrats flexed their muscles and forced Republican colleagues to abandon an effort to overturn President Clinton's striker-protection order. The directive bars federal agencies from doing business with companies that hire permanent replacement workers during a strike. Opponents fell two votes short of stopping a Democratic filibuster...