Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working members of the U.M.W. are mostly men in either their 50s or their 20s. The middle generation is missing because between about 1950 and 1968, the coal industry did not hire new miners. Union President Miller vows that he will not only bargain fiercely for more pay (current average wage: $225 a week), but also let the coal companies know that "the pick and shovel days are over...
Meanwhile, slightly east of Harvard Square, Neighborhood Ten sent 1000 Cambridge citizens a fund-raising letter. Neighborhood Ten hopes to get up between $10,000 and $15,000 to hire lawyers and consultants to shadow the General Service Administration (GSA) while it prepares the impact statement...
...HISTORY Department this week announced that in order to meet Dean Rosovsky's new budget, it will hire about three fewer graduate students and two fewer assistant professors next year. The History Department will probably not be the only department to be forced to cut back on its teaching staff; Rosovsky has asked every department to maintain its teaching staff costs at the same level as last year's, and to absorb the inflation however...
...such an environment, the traditional tools of economic management are no longer enough to keep the economy in good health. Heavy government spending and increases in the money supply that boost demand are more likely to tempt employers to bid up the wages of skilled workers than to hire the unskilled jobless. Cutting back the flow of money to the economy can produce a shallow recession, but as Americans learned in 1970, prices are likely to keep rising rapidly anyway...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the president, announces a new "open hiring plan" under Harvard's affirmative action program. "We will hire any woman who applies as long as she is a man," Leonard reports...