Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor tracks and roads, farmers and manufacturers cannot get their products to market on time, and the delay shows up in the prices of everything from soybeans to stereo sets. If city sewers and subways are already strained beyond their limits companies may be reluctant to expand and hire new workers, since they may not be able to get to work. Warns the Council of State Planning Agencies in a disturbing new report entitled America in Ruins: "The deteriorated condition of basic facilities that underpin the economy will prove a critical bottleneck to national economic renewal during this decade unless...
...private justice programs contend that they have two great faults. One is the secrecy of the court proceedings, which disturbs many champions of press freedom. Another is that private courts are inherently discriminatory, since the swift justice they offer is available only to those who can afford to hire a judge. On the other hand, says Preble Stolz, a law professor at Berkeley, "if the cases that this system takes out of the pipeline are the ones that take several months to try normally, then that amounts to quite a bit of time saved to try many other cases...
...boat house is connected to the wall of Memorial Drive by a pair of metal braces, which are buckling because of cracks accumulated during the icy winter. The maintenance man can't fix them because there is no maintenance man--he quit. The team is trying to hire somebody new, but the University won't give the new man employee benefits because it is not a full-time position. Meanwhile, their boat house is floating away...
...willing to give away the idea to any publisher who would hire him as editor, but fortunately for him every one he wrote to turned him down flat. One person who encouraged him was his bride, Lila Bell Acheson, now 91, the sister of a Macalester classmate. "I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea," she later recalled. They mailed out thousands of subscription appeals just before their wedding. When they returned from their honeymoon to Greenwich Village in Manhattan there were 1,500 responses...
...hire many students. We just pick the cream-of-the-crop type who can contribute to our program," Bonner said, adding, "During the job interview it became apparent that Mike was an extraordinary student...