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Word: hires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs indicate that our program is thriving. The demand by employers for graduates of the program is vigorous and growing: graduates receive multiple offers; employers who hire our students one year come back again to recruit. Last year, for example, the newly elected mayor of New Orleans offered positions on his staff to ten of our graduating students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Planners React | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...Ford. Meanwhile, Henry's brother William Clay Ford, 54, is expected to remain as chairman of the executive committee. Henry Ford may stay on as chairman of a revised finance committee and a director. Said one Ford Motor Co. insider: "As long as he has the power to hire and fire chief executives, don't count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford's Future | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Embryos that are actually implanted should stem only from the sperm and eggs of "lawfully married couples," a rule designed to head off such Huxleian possibilities as surrogate wombs for hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yes to Test-Tube Babies | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...decline, no change in the pattern is in sight") and his incorrect use of "less" for "fewer" ("Less students are enrolled this year than last"). The response was no better when he wanted to check out the more subtle misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence was correct as it stood. The quickest and surest correct answers to all three questions were provided by Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Advent executives made the announcement late last week as the workers left the plant on their last day. The company is moving to Portsmouth. N.H., where it plans to hire primarily local workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Will Help Laid-Off Advent Workers | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

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