Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unruly in their worship, and Nastassia Kinski, one of the film's stars, wanly beautiful in a white coat, was duly whisked. On the most elementary level, Coppola's risk of $24,000 for a Sunday New York Times ad and something more than $20,000 to hire the Music Hall had paid off; he had 6,000 seats available for each of two showings, and virtually all of the seats had bottoms in them...
...assist in divination, game companies bring in packs of sockless teen-agers to play prototypes, and hire as consultants professors of almost anything?engineering, psychology computer science, possibly even medieval French literature. At Bally, three teams of about 25 engineers, artists, computer programmers and game developers work on translating ideas into intricate microchip circuitry. One project started three years ago in Bally's Midway division as a black-and-white game called Catch 40. A little man ran back and forth trying to catch falling objects on his head. As the game progressed, the objects fell faster and faster. Early...
...unprepared to do college work. The cost of remedial education has skyrocketed. Says Leon Mayhew, vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis: "There are costs in the generic sense of money spent. The other cost is in the misdirection of talents in teaching." While some remedial programs hire specially trained teachers, many untenured-and frustrated-Ph.D.s find themselves teaching basic reading and Algebra I rather than literature or calculus. Adds California State University Chancellor Glenn Dumke: "Either the state university will direct its energy to the full meaning of 'higher education' or its campuses will...
Tichy finds that attempts to improve things, no matter how elegant in design, invariably make them worse. Two giant corporations compete to make a better washing machine; as veteran readers of science fiction might suspect, the devices become complex enough to experience mental illness, hire their own laundresses and attempt a takeover of the world. Even outer space is being ruined by man's ability to visit it. Graffiti flourish in the asteroid belt: IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ON THIS HERE METEORITE...
...share of professors. For new job seekers, the benefits of carrying a key are hard to assess. "Quite frankly, sometimes it's a hindrance," says John Delgrosso, an administrator at New York University. "People are seen as overqualified, and other people feel threatened by that." Most corporations hire out of graduate school and judge applicants accordingly. But a spokesman at a New York brokerage firm admits: "A key is something we'd look at twice...