Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threats not to hire workers who supported the union...
...industry has become remarkably homogeneous. It likes to hire its future leaders young; both General Motors and Chrysler operate degree-granting institutes. Competitive pressures push ambitious employees to put in eleven-hour days and six-day weeks if they aspire to the top. Men who make it (and there are virtually no women in top management posts) have spent 25 years or more within their companies...
...backed hike in the minimum wage from $2.30 an hour in 1977 to the current $3.10 has hurt teen-age employment. At that rate, economists believe, many teen-agers are simply priced out of the market; businessmen, complaining that unskilled workers are not worth such salaries, are reluctant to hire them. What is more, some Administration job programs have been criticized as nothing but make-work projects. Grumbles Baron Claiborne, 15, a high school student who worked at a Boston recreation center last summer: "Those jobs don't give you nothing to do. I'd check...
...that was one of the minor incidents. Fairfield alleged that the FBI provided Yale President Charles Seymour with clandestine, often inaccurate reports on faculty members' politics. That procedure clearly broke the president's official policy of accepting no secret, unsolicited information, even though he also did not want to hire any Communists. The university did allow one official liaison from the FBI but prohibited the presence of the other informants, whom faculty members told Fairfield were "suspected of watching their homes and in one case of opening their mail." Fairfield also reported that Robert S. Cohen, a post-doctoral student...
Gloomy businessmen are now bracing for an economic downturn as deep as any in the postwar period. They consequently see no need to borrow funds at the still relatively high rates so as to expand capacity or hire new workers. General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones predicts that the prime rate will sink to 12% or 13% before investment picks up. Explains Gilbert Heebner, chief economist at the Philadelphia National Bank: "It was like 20% was some magic threshold. Borrowers simply stopped borrowing. Even small independent businessmen like farmers chose to liquidate their crops rather than borrow money...