Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would probably be even sillier if other businesses hired their employees the way Harvard does. A law firm would become the laughingstock of the profession if it tried to hire only the nation's most celebrated lawyers and judges who had proven themselves by becoming successful and established at top firms and courts around the country. So would a baseball team that tried to sign both all-star teams to its roster...
...About the decision nine years ago, he adds. "Bowles could only have been appointed on the grounds we needed a radical economist. "He cites Bowles insufficient body of research up to that time as the primary grounds for the refusal to grant tenure, adding "We don't refuse to hire people for then political views." Whatever the cause, Marglin soon became an anomaly...
...pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private eye with scenes from some fine old films, with some fine old friends: Cagney in White Heat, Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire, Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously...
...honed into classic screenplays; in Santa Monica, Calif. A taste of Chicago-during the '20s gave Burnett a gritty sensibility that marked his work over half a century and provided memorable roles to such tough-guy stars as Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra) and Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire). Not long ago, he observed of life: "You're going to have trouble and you die-that much you know. And there's not much else you do know...