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Well-intentioned newspaper executives have long bemoaned their generally poor record in recruiting minorities. Now they are discovering a compelling reason to hire minority reporters and give more space to minority issues: the bottom line. As the country's growing racial diversity is reflected in newspaper- readership studies, news executives are realizing that they must appeal to minority readers or risk losing them...
Sollors says the agenda for Harvard's Afro-Am Department is straightforward for the next few years: to hire a musicologist to replace Eileen Southern, professor of music emeritus, to find social scientists and finally, to strengthen the study of history and literature...
...also told Zobel that one of the defendants will hire another attorney in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest...
...most common of these is the contention that increasing the minimum wage will throw people out of work. Everyone remembers the graph from Ec. 10 that shows how raising wages above the market level causes firms to hire fewer workers. Sounds simple and convincing...
EVEN when they concede that point, conservative critics insist that a sub-minimum, or "training wage" is needed so that unskilled teenagers can gain experience in the job market. Businesses, the argument goes, would hire and train more teenagers if only their labor were cheap enough. Of course, as the minimum wage stagnated, the cost of teenage labor declined dramatically in real terms since 1981, but teenage employment rates have not risen...