Word: hires
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...Noriega flap illustrates, the law also has the potential of blocking the funds that suspects need to hire the attorneys of their choice. The measure, complains Neal Sonnett, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, "gives prosecutors the power to disqualify a Clarence Darrow while allowing a more pliable lawyer to remain in the case...
...several other councillors said that creating the new position could undermine the authority of the chief, creatingfriction in the department. They suggested thecity hire more police officers instead, or abolishthe post of chief altogether...
...MONSIEUR HIRE. In rank solitude, a strange man (Michel Blanc) watches a pretty woman (Sandrine Bonnaire), and someone has murder in mind. From the Georges Simenon novel, French filmmaker Patrice Leconte spins a handsome web of obsession, betrayal and death. Blanc is spookily splendid as the pathetic voyeur...
...pressure on Harvard's administration, if applied indiscriminately, can have damaging side effects as well. Bell's ultimatum raises the specter of tokenism in its purest form. Is the hiring of one Black woman proof of a true commitment to faculty diversity? And if Harvard does hire a Black woman to assuage Bell, will she only be known as The Black Woman on The Faculty? Will her role as a scholar be undermined by suspicion about why she was hired...
...decision that cut across its traditional ideological lines, the court held in a 5-4 decision that the National Labor Relations Board does not have to assume that workers hired as strikebreakers are opposed to union representation. That makes it easier for a union to prove it has majority support. Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote the opinion, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Brennan, White and Stevens. "Replacements may in some circumstances desire union representation despite their willingness to cross the picket line," wrote Marshall. The likely impact: employers who hire replacements for striking workers will find it more...