Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four sections by the decision of Byker and the Faculty Committee on expository writing. They made that decision even though there were 150 freshmen--enough to fill over eight sections--who requested journalism as their first-choice option. Then when the committee decided this year it would only hire full-time teachers for options with eight or more sections, the journalism section was forced to dissolve...
...staff, which will soon number 700 nationwide, is coordinated from the Atlanta headquarters (302 members) by Jordan, 31, who is waging his own anti-inflationary drive. To scratch up money to hire more people in the field, he has cut salaries by 10% (top pay is $1,800 a month). Jordan has also tightened procedures that...
Some employers hire part-time workers and pay them "off the books," usually in greenbacks taken from the petty-cash drawer. The employer gets the advantage of cheap labor; the workers draw both clandestine wages and jobless benefits. Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat...
...idea that a black presence in the board room could make a giant corporation more sensitive to the needs of minorities. The 6 ft. 5 in. minister had already acquired a reputation for both militance and pragmatism, first by organizing boycotts that forced scores of Philadelphia businesses to hire more black workers, then by setting up a nationwide string of training centers that teach blacks skills ranging from upholstering to air-traffic control. In an uncompromising statement accepting the GM post, Sullivan insisted that he would not become an apologist for tokenism-indeed, that he would soon resign if blacks...
Special work visas had to be arranged for the American kids. When the shooting schedule overlapped the school term, the production was required to hire six teachers to hold classes. These sessions taught Harlem's Albin Jenkins, nine at the time, to read and write...