Word: hires
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cooking is a miniscule part of it," he says. "People want entertainment, not food. I'd rather hire a guy with personality...
Television is one of those peculiar institutions (professional sports is another) where the underlings often wield more clout than their bosses. The faces onscreen, after all, are what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney...
Glazer, who has studied and written extensively about affirmative action, said that at Harvard there is strong pressure on department chairs to hire minorities. "If you hire a non-minority person, you have to explain why," he said. "If you proposed hiring a minority person, you don't have to make any explanations...
...least six people are murdered in the north of Rio every day. If the killer is not a known criminal, he could be a policeman; local shopkeepers hire moonlighting cops to hunt down robbers or deadbeat customers. "Merchants will make up a list of people to be killed and give it to the death squads," says Rodrigues. "The official statistics don't include all the killings because people are afraid to report them, since they know that the police are part of the death squads." Many are afraid to go out at night...
...night, lest they be held up at gunpoint while stopped. Some cars are equipped with a hidden button that cuts off the gas line, so that a thief can travel only a few blocks before the engine stalls. In the absence of reliable police patrols, neighborhoods band together to hire private armed guards who demand identification from visitors. "There is more fear now than ever before," say sociology professor Luis Garcia de Sousa at the Pontifical Catholic University. "People live with this fear daily, so it has become part of their lives, their culture, like the climate here...