Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success of the expert-for-hire ad has yet to be determined, officials said...
Although searches for tenured posts still require the dean's authorization, under the new system, personal power politics and individual negotiations with the dean of the Faculty have become less frequent because departments don't have to lobby for every professor they seek to hire...
Dukakis' populist appeal is an elite-seeking missile homing in on the pocketbook. He suggested that Bush's proposed capital-gains tax break would help the privileged few "hire a second butler." He derided it by using the example of a taxpayer who reported capital gains of $515,132 between 1985 and 1987. Such a taxpayer would save $22,000 a year. His name: "George Herbert Walker Bush...
Victims of hurricanes, drought, debts, superstition and disease, peasants are constantly preyed upon. Those with a bit of land are hesitant to improve it for fear of attracting the attention of covetous gros negs, who often hire corrupt lawyers to steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under...
Although pledge sales, in which new fraternity members hire themselves out to do menial labor, are common, the racial character of the ZBT auction was highly unusual, students said...