Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South American drug traffickers have appreciated this attitude. Arriving regularly from Colombia, Bolivia or Peru at the Torrijos airport, they hire armored cars and off-duty policemen to escort them and their money to hotels. When a Cuban-born woman called from Miami to ask her Panamanian lawyer for help in making a deposit, he assumed she needed legal advice. What she really wanted was assistance in lugging dozens of shoe boxes filled with small- denomination bills to the bank...
...liberal arts are not permanent; the percentages range downward in other fields. Emily Abel, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of a book on college employment, says of the growing race of gypsies, "They're like any part-time employees that McDonald's would hire . . . cheap labor that colleges and universities are relying on to save money...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and thehouse masters are considering issuing a Harvarddrinking card to all students 21 and over andrequiring house committees to hire people fromoutside the house to check IDs at parties...
...time of that nadir, Mancuso had a restocking process well under way. Months earlier, Mancuso's first important moves had been to hire Tanen and lure Producer John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) over to Paramount from Universal. Hughes' first feature for Paramount, Pretty in Pink, was released in February and has subsequently grossed $40 million. Hughes followed that up in June with Ferris Buehler's Day Off, which has since brought in $70 million...
Many believe that the law schools themselves are not making enough of an effort to attract and hire minorities. "The effort to increase the number of minority law professors seems to have lost its intensity," Torres say. "There's a sense that the commitment to diversity is not there...