Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Gun for Hire...
...major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
Kraus, who says he tries to hire Kennedy School graduates because they are well qualified for public service jobs, lauds the increased interest in local public service among K-School alumni...
...army of Washington-based consultants perform an indispensable chore when they are honest. Sometimes dubbed "rent-a-general" agencies, the firms hire former Pentagon brass and braid, then charge as much as $1,000 a day for their advice. Many of the consultants worked in procurement and retain close contacts with their former colleagues. They know both the procedural intricacies of how contracts are processed and the technical needs of the services. "You almost have to be an insider to understand it," says Spratt. Without these middlemen, the military's complex procurement system might not work...
...million beneficiaries, who will be charged an additional $4 monthly premium plus an income-based surtax. Among the provisions to be phased in during the next three years is the cost of respite care for up to 80 hours a year, which will allow many like Anna Price to hire occasional help. But the bill has little effect on the big-ticket item for 1.5 million elderly Americans: nursing-home costs, which average $22,000 a year...