Word: hire
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...into a characteristically vituperative argument with Leonard Goldberg, then a vice president at ABC. The older man, impressed with Diller's "willfulness"--Diller's word (again)--eventually offered him a job at the network. There he helped invent the mini-series, popularized TV movies and had the perspicacity to hire young Michael Eisner away from his job as a CBS children's programmer...
...ever fewer people to do the repairs. Many of the technicians acquainted with the 9020E's innards have long since retired. "We are down to two trained technicians specialized in the IBM 9020E in New York Center," says Henry Brown, a power-systems technician. The FAA has tried to hire contract workers. But, says Acadeno, "a contract technician is not going to come to work in a snowstorm." And those who finally do show up are trained to work with microprocessors, not primitive circuit boards...
...bill, which awaits consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would slash the annual employment-visa quota from 140,000 workers to 90,000 within a year of its passage. Some companies that hire immigrants would have to pay a fee of $10,000-or 10% of each worker's salary, whichever is higher--for worker training. Simpson also wants to require some new arrivals to be proficient in business English, and would limit the stay of foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase...
...Bach, an Israeli engineer who six years ago founded Chip Express, a manufacturer of custom-made microchips that has 64 employees--only 30 are foreign--in Santa Clara, California, and 30 more in Israel. Under the Simpson bill, Or-Bach argues, he would have been unable to hire enough skilled workers to start up his thriving firm. In fact, there would have been no one to dream up the company, since Or-Bach came to the U.S. in 1981 on a visa to work for Honeywell. "If this happened 10 years ago, this company would not be here," Or-Bach...
...oversee the REP, Radcliffe will hire someone to fill the newly-created post of dean of educational programs...