Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agers and blacks are looking for full-time work now than ever before, and they often are unskilled and untrained. At the same time, the entire work force is growing so fast that the economy has not been able to produce enough jobs. In order to induce employers to hire enough new workers to bring the jobless rate down to 4%, the Administration might indeed have to fire up demand in the economy enough to rekindle inflation. Brookings Institution Economist George Perry notes that in the 1950s a 4% jobless rate was accompanied by price inflation of 2% a year...
...billion in expansion and modernization, a historic record for any U.S. firm. The spending is intended largely to improve service for A.T. & T.'s 101 million telephones. Service has become a problem in big cities like New York, Miami and Boston, where A.T. & T. has had to hire large numbers of new employees, many of them lacking adequate technical training and in some cases even high school diplomas...
...smaller planes-Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcraft and the like. The third-levels fall into two groups: the 105 lines that provide scheduled round-trip service at least five days a week out of particular communities, and the 3,100 or so that offer less frequent scheduled service or simply hire themselves out irregularly for a motley of chores. The 105 scheduled lines observe stricter federal performance and safety regulations and generally fly bigger planes than the non-skeds. They include such companies as Arizona's Sun Airlines, Florida's Shawnee Airlines, Pennsylvania's Ransome Airlines, Wisconsin...
...problem is money; it costs more to hire experienced pilots than inexperienced ones, and more to upgrade pilot skills. With CAB help, it may be possible eventually for a tiny unscheduled third-level like Winkle's Flying Service of Siwash, N.D., to attain the prestige and performance of a scheduled third-level like Maine's mighty Aroostook Airways...
Marvin does manage to carry off a few funny bits, whenever the Mexican heat and the dialogue don't succeed in getting him down. Newman's performance is his worst since The Silver Chalice. A director who was really in control of a picture would never even hire somebody who pulled the kind of stunts Newman gets away with here...