Word: hire
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...Voorst says the year-old program has performed poorly, and faces "enormous challenges." That's because federal, state and local governments aren't working well together to train welfare recipients. "They're headed for a crunch," says Van Voorst. So far, a mere 750 companies have promised to hire at least one welfare recipient. And it's not as if the federal government is setting an example: It has, so far, hired a scant 410 welfare recipients...
...changed agents three times in three years, partly because he thought he was losing out on meaty roles. "At Creative Artists Agency I was the action specialist; maybe I was also a bit lax and just became a gun for hire. Meanwhile Michael Douglas was getting these incredible parts: Basic Instinct, Falling Down. When I saw Al Pacino do Scent of a Woman--I would've killed for a role like that. The Usual Suspects? I would have been there in a second. People don't think of me in those terms. Maybe after this, they will...
Second, the system will be more complex. More people will need to hire tax preparers just to cope with the mind-numbing complexity...
TIME: There have been reports that Bad Boy has been involved with street gangs. Did you ever hire Crips as bodyguards...
...moved on, 18 months later, to the Democratic National Committee's finance office. How he engineered the moves has been a mystery--and remains one. Soon after Clinton's Inaugural, Democratic activist Maeley Tom, who worked as a Lippo consultant, wrote a letter pressing Administration officials to hire Huang, identifying him as the "top priority" of the Riadys and the "political power" who advises them on "where to make contributions." But the personnel official who made the hire claims to have done so only because of Huang's Asian background; call it ethnic patronage. Even so, Huang already had remarkable...