Word: hires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take Dirty Story, for instance, which Ambler wrote in 1967. Two European mining consortiums have extensive interests in two African countries side by side. A secret expeditionary force from one country discovers valuable ore just beyond its borders. They hire mercenaries to lead African troops in an effort to rearrange the border. A down-and-out fugitive, our hero, is waylaid in French Somaliland (he is forced to leave Greece for getting mixed up in a pornography racket) with passport problems. He meets a "businessman" and when effusively drunk he brags of a non-existent background in soldiering. Before...
Portman began brashly in 1953, after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology and serving his apprenticeship with an Atlanta architectural firm. Says he: "I wanted to have an impact and was too impatient to wait for someone else to hire me." So he opened his own office in Atlanta. While professional groups winced-architects were thought to be in conflict of interest if they developed property-he designed a striking medical center for rental but could not get it financed. He did better with Atlanta's Merchandise Mart, a blocky 22-story building of showrooms and sales offices...
...California. It would set "full employment" as a national goal to be met within perhaps three years; 3% would be the target unemployment rate. The President would have to submit plans to provide every American "able and willing to work" with a job, using a "standby job corps" to hire those unable to find employment. The independent Federal Reserve Board would be required to tailor its monetary policies to meet the employment target-a step toward a planned national economy...
...under the Nixon administration the government asked for goals and timetables for hiring underutilized minorities and women. The contractor was to demonstrate good faith in striving toward those goals. In demanding goals and timetables companies now had to hire preferentially or lose government contracts...
...fund is intended only for expenses "beyond normal family social needs" of a master, and Master Robert J. Kiely's use of a large part of the fund to hire a full-time, live-in maid at Adams House seems inappropriate. Since at least a part of the maid's services is for Kiely's purely personal benefit, a commensurate part of her salary--as Dean Whitlock said--would "more appropriately" come from the administrative stipend. There may be acceptable reasons for retaining the maid, who has been paid personally by previous Adams House masters and is two years away...