Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood reflects much genuine altruism, but it is also in large part a reaction to rising public attacks on business. Company chiefs have been shaken by the protests of the consumer crusaders, the blacks and the youth. Talented college graduates, who are the people businessmen most want to hire, demand to know just what corporations are doing for the community and the nation. Many corporate chiefs have been personally pressed by their own sons and daughters. Whitney Young Jr., head of the National Urban League, was startled recently to see the chairman of one of the largest U.S. corporations moved...
...American businessman is being challenged to effect change within his own organization: to hire more of the poor, to stop the pollution that his company produces, to manufacture safer and more reliable products. Beyond that, he is being asked to reach more broadly into the community: to use his company's talent, capital and organizational skill to repair the rattles in the nation's social machinery...
...been reluctant to build low-rent ghetto housing because Chairman Lynn Townsend, who has been socially active in other areas, cannot yet foresee even a minimum profit in it. There are legitimate questions, too, of how much a company can bend its quality control standards in order to hire and keep poorly educated workers. If they produce shoddy goods or sloppy services, then customers are inevitably penalized. The Bell System's commendable record of recruiting employees from the slums has contributed to the recent decline in telephone service...
...President's hands so as to avoid any repetition of a Cambodia venture by denying him the use of federal funds to 1) retain U.S. forces in Cambodia, 2) send military advisers and instructors there, 3) provide direct air support of Cambodian troops, or 4) hire anyone to "engage in any combat activity in support of Cambodian forces...
...weather construction, even though the equipment is automatic. Pittsburgh contractors complain that cement finishers have reduced their daily output to 500 or 600 sq. ft. from 700 to 800 sq. ft. a few years ago. If St. Louis contractors use power or lights on a construction project, they must hire a union electrician merely to turn the switches...