Word: hiring
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...needed some fresh leadership, Board Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson, 57, a St. Louis lawyer, and other directors began to act independently of him to remedy what they saw as fiscal mismanagement and sloppy record keeping. Earlier this year Wilson's "Majority Caucus" stripped Wilkins of the power to hire and fire top assistants. Today, the search committee of the N.A.A.C.P. is not consulting with Wilkins on his successor...
...cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle." The principled girl is Kathy Cronkite, Walter's aspiring actress daughter. Cronkite, who was originally offered the anchorman role (CBS said no way), suggested that his old chum Lumet might hire Kathy, who had been working as bookkeeper in a Sunset Strip rock club. Father read her script, she says, "but never volunteered any comments. My dad and I keep our careers very far apart." And that's the way it is, Walter...
Carter further would have the Government itself hire some people for public-service jobs−presumably meaning work in parks, drug-rehabilitation clinics and the like−and launch a program to create 800,000 summer jobs for youths. But he flatly opposes the idea that the Government should guarantee everyone a job through hiring for public-service employment. Though Carter has endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill. which calls for just such Government hiring, it is a ritualistic blessing only. Says his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein: "This bill could become an albatross. But no bill goes through Congress...
...black press no longer can hire and keep the best black talent, which is now keenly sought by white editors. The Chicago Defender pays beginning reporters $164 per week; the Chicago Tribune $288. "Young journalists use us as a training ground," says John Procope, publisher of Amsterdam News. Nor is the black press the sole voice for the black community, which until the '60s it was. Metropolitan dailies now cover some stories of special interest to blacks, as do local television stations. Moreover, the black press has largely abandoned its protest rationale of almost 150 years (the first black...
...bold type on the installment contract.* Consumers may still be sued by holders in due course for payment, but they now have a legal basis for defending themselves. The move will not prevent shoddy merchandise from reaching the marketplace. But since no bank or finance company wants to hire auto mechanics or TV repairmen, the FTC's action should make lenders more wary about buying contracts from merchants who will not stand behind the goods they sell...