Word: hires
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...control of the schools. A public school cannot operate with so many people managing it. The situation is equivalent to allowing the Chrysler stockholders to take over the decision making. The public should vote for the school board, but, once elected, the board should be free to hire able administrators. Let the professionals...
...explanation has to lie with the Harvard mentality itself Charles Sullivan, executive director of the commission. pshaws any claims that his organization inflated the costs, noting that they recommended few actual changes, and that Harvard obviously went into the project with grand designs in mind. "You don't hire Graham Gund to build a telephone booth." Sullivan adds...
...Even administrators seem to agree with a recent graduate of Waseda University, who explains, "Since we broke our backs for all those years, we deserve four years of fun." (There are some hardworking exceptions, notably students who want to go to graduate school in law, medicine and technology.) Employers hire by looking at the university a student attended and pay little attention to grades. After college, the Japanese take up serious studying again when they start to work. Says Junchi Noguchi, head of the Japan Union of Scientists and Engineers: "The real training for an engineer in Japan comes after...
Sociology, in general, is an extremely wide-ranging field prone to battles over such topics as which research methodology is best. At Harvard, this confusion has bred personnel disputes, with professor split over whether to hire empirical specialists, who work often with statistics and computers, or researchers who take a more historical or theoretical approach...
Most significantly, the Reagan Administration, which has lobbied unsuccessfully for a subminimum youth wage for years, has come up with a powerful way to make teen-agers attractive to business. Beginning this summer, firms hiring economically disadvantaged youths,* age 16 or 17, get a tax credit for 85% of the first $3,000 in wages paid out between May 1 and Sept. 15. "An employer can hire a young person for as little as $262 for the entire summer if he applies the tax credit," declared Albert Angrisani, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training in the U.S. Department of Labor...