Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to these two major gains, blacks have also convinced Derek Bok, dean-designate of the Law School, to pressure a construction firm working on a Law School building to hire more black workers...
...Cambridge's nine city councillors, pausing for a moment outside the City Hall elevator, ruminated on Cambridge politics: "You know, its pretty easy to get five votes together to fire a man, but it's hard to find five votes to hire another man." That just about summed up the past five month's action in City Hall...
...called "firing five" are, however, themselves divided. At one pole, Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment...
Though the split between pro and anti-DeGuglielmo coalitions has a sizable quotient of personality clashes behind it, the differences between those who would be willing to hire a manager from outside the City, and those who would fight such a move is rooted in the diverse nature of Cambridge. The Italians, Portuguese, and blacks who live in one and two family houses in East Cambridge, Cambridgepot, Riverside and other neighborhoods have little in common with the businessmen and academics who reside along pleasant Brattle Street...
...that combines a minimum income with an opportunity for a job and an obligation to work. This plan operates under the theory that income guarantee is necessary, but that those receiving it must undertake full-time productive employment. A concurrent elimination of minimum wage laws would permit industry to hire more labor than it can now. The government could offer public works employment as an alternative to unattractive industrial jobs, undertaking projects like slum clearance and cleaning littered highways--projects that require great manpower and little capital investment...