Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain why. Such testimony is particularly critical in rape cases for corroboration and in homicides, where there may be no eyewitnesses. One danger, though: it can become so complicated that the jury gets lost. That is often the only hope for defense attorneys, who can rarely afford to hire opposing experts. In cross-examination and final arguments, they hammer away at the witness's credentials or the inability to pin the crime on the defendant conclusively...
Many Massachusetts cities have had to lay off or not hire any new firefighters in the last two years because of Prop 2 1/2. "We haven't hired anybody in the last year," said one Cambridge official...
...fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
...very factors that make entrepreneurs successful in starting companies can lead to problems later on. Frequently egotistical, the upstart executives seldom admit failure and sometimes refuse to share responsibility or hire good people to help run the company. A crucial turning point comes when a new enterprise reaches sales of about $250 million. In some cases, like that of Engineer Kenneth Olsen of Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard, Mass., the innovative founder develops the managerial skills to run a large, complex organization. In other cases, the entrepreneur gets in trouble and must get help from professional managers. Centronics Data Computer...
...before Lange's debut in the Dino de Laurentiis King Kong, that she read Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits...