Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content merely to exhort or debate in a studio. To hold his audience, he commandeers dramatic vignettes and perky musical numbers. In Congress, many incumbents studiously identify themselves with the controversial issues that will assure them net work exposure (see cover story). Some astute-and affluent-candidates even hire their own film crews to shoot live campaign scenes, then turn over the film to local TV news programs...
...named for the late Sir Winston, who quickly gave it his blessing as a "great imperial concept." Smallwood also sold Britain's N. M. Roth schild & Sons on heading a consortium, British Newfoundland Corp., Ltd., to develop it. For the five-year construction job, Brinco expects to hire 5,000 men, fly in 600 million lbs. of equipment and supplies. For a starter, it has already bridged the river above the falls, and built an access road to a townsite and an airfield 10 miles away...
Large sums of federal research money pour into Harvard annually, financing everyone from accelerator specialists to zoologists. The recipients hire more graduate students, buy new equipment, do more research, and record their thanks for the grants in the footnotes to their articles...
Following the recommendations of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, the University should either hire non-student help, to continue the present level of service, or consider cutting the fees that students pay to live in University rooms. Although officials argue that non-students would not be willing to work for the rate now paid undergraduates--$1.75 an hour--they might at least make some attempt to offer the jobs to people outside the University. After all, the unemployed in Cambridge and Boston are primarily the unskilled--those who cannot type, or do research, or any of the other kinds of work...
...Absolute Freedom." Neither Thomson nor Astor will completely control the eleven-man board, which will hire and fire editors. It will consist of the editor in chief, the general manager, two Astor men, three Thomson men, and-at the fulcrum-four "independent national figures" to be approved by both partners. Though Thomson will not be on the board, his son, Kenneth, 43, will be vice chairman. Said Thomson, who, like the U.S.'s Sam Newhouse, reads balance sheets much more avidly than editorial pages: "All my life, I have believed in the independence of editors, and the new editor...