Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three former DeGuglielmo supporters still on the council--Bernard Goldberg, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Cornelia B. Wheeler--voted to hire Sullivan. They were joined by Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Barbara Ackermann, both of whom had voted to fire DeGuglielmo, saying at the time that he lacked the professional expertise needed for the manager...
...DeGuglielmo, the Council said it hoped to appoint a new manager within 90 days, by the middle of May. The Council was deadlocked on the manager issue for nearly twice that period, however, until the new coalition, breaking across old pro- and anti-DeGuglielmo lines, came together to hire Sullivan. Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy, who served as Acting City Manager for the interim, has returned to his former post...
Poverty is only a part of the black misery in the South, but it is--right now--the most important part. Some of the other phases of discrimniation--the black schools that keep churning out under-educated children, the employers who won't hire Negroes--contribute to the poverty, and other parts--segregated night clubs, "No Niggers" signs at YMCA's--almost seem superfluous compared to the poverty. As Silas Miller said, "It wouldn't be so bad if we just wasn't all the time poor...
Student Power. Nader's investigators also claim that the FTC is reluctant to tackle enterprises that hire high-priced lawyers and is chary of publicizing its findings. The commission, Nader testified recently before the Senate Select Committee on Small Business, has made a study of the auto industry that is being kept secret from the taxpayer, while manufacturers have received copies of the findings. The FTC insists that the report is still incomplete...
...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...