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Word: hires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers but reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been excluded from Chicago, but to hire neighborhood residents (most of them Negroes) as apprentices on such work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Low Costs Through Instant Building | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Assuming, though, for the sake of discussion that a newspaper could afford to hire a newsroomful of Norman Mailers, then could provide space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide...

Author: By Lawrence Allison, | Title: Mr. Mailer and the myth of objectivity | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

...their society had achievement-based norms that adopted quickly to Westernization. All over Nigeria they formed a merchant and professional class. An engineer said, "If you are a businessman and you need engineers, you read applications and you don't look at tribes. Fifteen of the twenty men you hire will be Ibos...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: The Legacy of the Biafran War | 11/12/1968 | See Source »

...minister stated that black people must exercise their power as consumers in order to create an identity for themselves. He cited the success of his efforts to force the 40 A & P stores in Chicago's black neighborhoods to hire black managers and invest their profit in black banks as proof that blacks could gain tangible advantages from consumer boycott tactics...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Jesse Jackson Transfixes Law Forum | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

...That is an excellent question about our social conscience and I'm glad you asked it. As for our hiring policies, we hire black people. As for the orientation of our work, we have jobs, important jobs, directly concerned with the quality of ghetto life. Like how do you get those ghetto residents to work an eight-hour day, how do you get them to want...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: So You Want To Make The Company Team, Son? | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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