Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman for the Harvard policemen's union said yesterday he is "very skeptical" about the University's plan to hire an outside consulting firm to help resolve the dispute over police morale that has hampered contract negotiations between Harvard and the patrolmen for several weeks...
Powers said the University decided to hire a private consulting firm because it did not think the union's alleged proposal to call in a single individual consultant was practical...
...perhaps, is the marked drop in the auto theft rate. Back in 1974, Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...
...year. The committee also rejected Carter's business tax breaks, which gave an employer the option of taking an extra 2% tax credit on investment in equipment or a 4% credit on the Social Security taxes he pays. The committee reasoned that businesses would not be encouraged to hire enough new people. So it approved a tax credit equal to 40% of the first $4,200 in wages paid to new employees above the average number of workers on the payroll in 1976. A $40,000 ceiling was placed on the amount of tax credits any single firm could...
...than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that has already knuckled under: New York's venerable "21," which recently paid damages and hired its first women to wait on tables...