Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's employees, however, were not as philosophical. One hundred and fifty will stay at work in Cambridge, but 450 others will be left without jobs, because of what Flynn termed a "deal" with New Hampshire officials to hire mostly local workers for the new plant...
...products ranging from record jackets to water skis. Cocaine can even be dissolved in liquor or perfume (it is easily recovered after passing customs). Water containing dissolved cocaine can be soaked into cotton clothes and retrieved days later with a loss of only about 10%. Middle-size traders often hire "mules," innocent-looking travelers, to walk their goods through customs; they profess ignorance if caught. A former Los Angeles probation officer and his Colombian wife were arrested with five associates last month; 6 lbs. of coke were concealed in the soles of their wedge shoes...
Bowersock also suggested that the Faculty create a teaching rank of instructor for post-doctoral scholars who would have more time than graduate student teaching assistants and junior Faculty to teach tutorials. In the face of junior Faculty opposition, CUE revised the proposals to suggest departments instead hire additional full-time lecturers or part-time teaching assistants on an annual basis, if the departments don't have enough senior Faculty to handle the tutorial program...
...public pays the employers' share too, because companies raise prices to pass along the boost. This year's increase may add half a point to the U.S. inflation rate; the bigger rise in 1981 will push prices up much more. Some bosses may also choose to hire fewer workers because the tax raises the cost of each employee. So the increases probably will aggravate unemployment as well as inflation...
...more to provide benefits for a worker above 65 than for one below that age; if the same employer contributions buy fewer fringes for the senior employees, so be it. Says one Labor Department official: "We are trying to make it as reasonable as possible for employers to hire and keep on older workers." Salary costs, to be sure, will increase, since workers normally achieve their peak earnings in the last years of their careers. But if few workers stay on after 65, as now seems likely, the effects will be minimal...