Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Later, at New York City's prestigious Parsons School of Design, Kelly would "sell other people their homework" to make tuition payments. He hung out with the glitterati at Studio 54. "I wanted to be somebody so bad," he sighs. But broke again, he dropped out. No designer would hire...
Many former UNLV players ultimately work as slot-machine hosts, casino bosses and maitre d's on the Vegas strip. Tarkanian says sometimes casino operators tell him which players they want to hire even before graduation. Says the coach: "We tell the kids if they keep their noses clean, this town will take care of them. They all stay here. Nobody ever leaves...
...Dale Brown will make me mayor of New Orleans if I help LSU reach the Final Four. Billy Tubbs will hire me as the new football coach of Oklahoma if I give the Sooners the NCAA title. I've had a tough day, kid. This better be good...
...minority students in medicine. Together they earn about $200,000 annually. But more than once while she was sorting clothes in the laundry room of the luxury apartment house in which they have lived for eight years, Patricia has been approached by white residents who have tried to hire her as a maid. Her husband has seen white residents close the elevator door in his face when he tried to board. Evidently they took the well-dressed 38-year-old Grayson, one of the highest- ranking officials in New York, for a mugger. "It makes me sizzle," he says, "because...
Power in prison falls to those who gather it, and Taliaferro prefers to hire men who, like himself, were convicted of capital offenses and therefore face long prison terms. "Short-timers have an ax to grind. They never learn anything in here. They blame everyone else, and they just can't wait to get out and screw up again. Then they come back. I committed murder. Homicide. I put myself in here. I take that responsibility, and I will deal with that...