Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.Y.U., located in Greenwich Village, is putting its experts to work helping neighborhood artists and actors, creating smokeless incinerators, improving slum schools, and studying New York's complex fiscal situation. Columbia has contributed heavily to the redevelopment of Manhattan's Morningside Heights, including helping to hire private patrolmen for the crime-ridden area around the school; graduate students of its School of Architecture have worked out a beautification project involving the Hudson River waterfront between Yonkers and Peekskill...
Even when British police refuse to act, an aggrieved citizen has a legal remedy. He can ask a local magistrate to issue a summons against the defendant, hire a barrister and conduct his own "private" prosecution. If he loses, he must pay the defendant's costs. For the first time in British legal memory, a private citizen has just used this approach against an allegedly obscene book-and his victory may be Britain's biggest pornography precedent since a jury cleared Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Trucking (for hire) Number of Workers 350,000 Month of Expiration March
...charge that the Pentagon is suppressing a Defense Department report saying the same thing. They will tell Rivers that if he does not at least raise soldiers' pay to see if the enlistment rate rises, they will turn the issue into a campaign slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." The Democrats will probably have to come across with a promise of higher pay and perhaps a statement on the desirability of a volunteer army, to be established after withdrawal from Vietnam...
...most politically potent argument for a volunteer army is a slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." Friedman says that it is plainly unfair to punish a man by drafting him and then punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...