Word: hires
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President Clinton today issued an executive order forbidding the federal government to sign big contracts with firms that hire permanent replacements for striking workers. Republicans already are preparing legislation to repeal the president's executive order, which applies only to government contracts exceeding $100,000 and will not be retroactive. "This is a political move on the part of the president to ingratiate himself with the labor unions," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl, who pointed out that Clinton previously alienated the unions by backingNAFTAandbailing out the Mexican economy...
...Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals. Mexico is the U.S.'s right hand. They should pay us higher wages...
Then again, free spirit that you are, maybe you should show up to the interview in a plaid pink and green suit. Hell, if they won't hire you because of your clothing, do you really want to spend the next few years working with them...
Malcom X's daughter told a childhood friend to proceed with plans to assassinate Louis Farrakhan because she was afraid the Nation of Islam leader was going to have her mother killed, according to government transcripts of a wiretapped phone conversation. Qubilah Shabazz, charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill Farrakhan, believed her mother was at risk because she had claimed Farrakhan was involved in Malcolm X's 1965 assasination, prosecutors charged in court papers. "I lost my father and I'm risking losing my mother," Shabazz told government informant Michael Fitzpatrick, according to the prosecution...
...They get this image of gangs and violence.Even before the thing began, there were two carsoutside Bentryway and three outside C-entryway.The only requirement is that you have to hire onesecurity officer for a four-hour police detail...