Word: hires
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Degree in hand, O'Connor collided head-on with the legal profession's prejudice against women: "I interviewed with law firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but none had ever hired a woman before as a lawyer, and they were not prepared to do so." Among the firms to which she applied was Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. One of its partners was William French Smith. The firm offered to hire her-as a legal secretary...
...America and crashes into Manhattan Island, which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader of the Free World must appear by then at the Hartford Summit Conference (Hartlord!? Yeah, and the next summer Olympics...
...more or less victims of our own success." Jeremy A. Richard, director of the expository writing program, said yesterday, adding. "We have been aided by the bad economy: I've never had such a fine pool of teachers to hire from...
American industry must bear much of the blame for failing to hire and train enough skilled workers. Some big companies have found it easier to hire away journeymen from other firms rather than develop their own. Other firms have simply been shortsighted. During downturns in the auto industry, apprentices have been laid off to enable companies to keep their fully trained men at work...
...When I was first asked to come to St. Louis as a consultant," recalls Gaddes, "I think I was expected to recommend that they get a large hall, hire Renata Scotto and do Il Trovatore." Instead, St. Louis has heard Rameau's Pygmalion, Martin y Soler's Tree of Chastity and the world premiere of The Village Singer, by the American composer Stephen Paulus...