Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their profits do little to ease Washington's foreign trade deficit, since few of their ships fly the American flag. Carnival's ships, for example, are registered in Panama and Liberia. Most liners carry such flags of convenience for economic reasons: the companies can avoid U.S. corporate taxes and hire low-paid foreign crews. That strategy has its drawbacks. Under an 1886 federal law, foreign vessels are not permitted to transport people between ports in the U.S. A foreign ship that sails from New York City, for example, cannot pick up passengers in Miami en route to the Caribbean. This...
...Caise was chosen by the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences to be an apprentice director. He worked with the directors of such popular television shows as "Dallas" and "Spenser for Hire...
Anybody looking to hire a smart kid from Harvard...
...Superintendent, we have jobs for your young people. If they can read or write, we'll hire them," Wilson said businesses have told him. He said businesses will recruit in suburban school districts or Boston private schools if no qualified students are found in the public school system...
...produce bad children." Most single-child parents are survivors of the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Many failed to finish their own schooling, and they are often ill equipped to rear children properly. Some of these parents apply immense pressure on the children to succeed where they themselves have not. Many hire experts to teach the toddlers music, calligraphy or a foreign language. A few even force their sons and daughters to parrot elegant Tang dynasty poetry. Says Fang Xiang, a retired child psychologist: "There is no need for tutoring in composition or arithmetic. What's important is moral education at home...