Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hits dull spots, he never takes it out on his writers afterward. Once when an ad agency executive began complaining after a show, Hope told him: "Look, if you've got any ideas, go home and write them. If they're any good, we'll hire you. Otherwise, keep...
...have been enormous. Under the present arrangement Project Apollo is being run as Project Manhattan was during World War II. Waste is inevitable because the government does not have time to do things the right way, and the wrong-but-fast way is invariably the most expensive. Instead of hiring only the best technicians, engineers, and research assisstants, NASA must hire everyone available and train people for jobs in which they may later prove incompetent, in the all-out effort to solve problems quickly. The space and defense effort now employs three-fourths of the scientific community, depriving other fields...
...remained tight-lipped about their findings and recommendations, pending a final report to the President this week, but they offered vague reassurances that Birmingham tensions are easing. In Birmingham itself, that hardly seemed the case. The city council last week rejected a demand by Martin Luther King that Birmingham hire 25 Negro cops within two weeks. King had promised in advance that such a rejection would bring "bigger and more determined" demonstrations than ever...
...short, said the court, a state did not have to furnish counsel for an indigent defendant. In ruling on Gideon's appeal, the court briskly overturned the Betts decision, held that "in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided...
...Seattle, clergymen helped win a fair share of jobs for Negroes at the Bon Marche, the city's largest department store, by organizing a buyers' boycott and a freedom march on the store, then negotiating with the management. In Boston, one local baking company agreed to hire more Negroes after ministers backed a "selected patronage" campaign from their pulpits, helped dent the company's bread sales...