Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many others, the Children's Zoo in Des Moines has had a serious vandalism problem. There is no money to hire a night watchman, and trespassers have broken in to cut off a cougar's ear, steal a trained hawk and release penned deer. Director Robert Elgin finally worked out an ingenious way to police the grounds at no cost: let Becky do it. Becky is a 180-lb. lioness...
Part of the money raised by the tax increases and by cuts in defense spending would go to the poor. Part would be spent by the Government to upgrade education, fight pollution, improve rapid transit and hire people who cannot find jobs in the private economy. Private investment would probably suffer. But McGovern's brain-trusters-mostly economists at M.I.T., Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and Princeton, who get advice from Maverick John Kenneth Galbraith-are not worried. They argue that U.S. business would be kept humming, thanks to increased Government investment and more spending by the no-longer poor...
...addition there would be a crash $10 billion program to hire job seekers and put them to work building housing, public-transit and sewage-plant projects. There would also be a comprehensive plan of medical insurance, financed separately by an increase in payroll taxes, and expenses of unspecified size to retrain and pay at 80% of full salary the people thrown out of work by McGovern's defense slashes...
...Report demanded very detailed information, but it did so purposefully. It proposed the Permanent Committee and asked for detailed specifics in order "to make sure that the uttering of pious generalities is not substituted for serious efforts to hire on the basis of excellence rather that...
...facilitate efforts to hire more excellent women, the Report on the Status of Women also considered the University's role in child care. It concluded that the University should hire a child care coordinator, pay for space, utilities and liability insurance for day care centers within the University, and establish a fund for the support of day care centers in their early stages...