Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas V. Potter, a former technician from the New England Conservatory of Music, recommended that Harvard hire a full-time caretaker to maintain the many pianos it owns...
...balloting is close, blacks will hold the balance of power and be able to win concessions from the Democratic candidate. Wrote Bond: "Putting black people in the federal bureaucracy is more important to us than having a black Vice President. We need real power, the kind of power to hire and fire, to set public policy...
...well as in Webster's newest dictionary, the definition of prostitution includes not only the exchange of money but also the rather vague concept of promiscuity. Ohio law, for example, forbids both getting paid for sex and "the offering of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse without hire." But what is "indiscriminate"? St. Jerome decried women who had known "many men," and monks argued over the number that would warrant condemnation; one said 40, another...
HARVARD trained many of the scholars that the Ford grants enabled other universities to hire. The pre-eminent figure is tall, laconic Historian John King Fairbank, 64, a frequent consultant to the U.S. Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become...
...bitter chill has settled over the U.S. academic job market as financially squeezed schools and colleges find themselves turning out more teachers than they can afford to hire. In Germany, things are the other way round: the booming economy's demand for technical experts has created a shortage of high school science and math teachers. To education planners in the German state of Hamburg, the contrast was opportune. Rather than train more pedagogues by a slow, expensive expansion of their highly elite university system, the officials decided simply to import part of the U.S. surplus. The results were flabbergasting...