Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout last Sunday's demonstration for affirmative action, Howard S. Jones '78 stood impassively, never joining the rest of the crowd sprawled on the grass. He remained alone, holding up a sign that read, "Affirmative action is unjust" on one side, and "Hire on merit" on the other...
Southwestern Publishing sells dictionaries and encyclopedia-like book sets to student salesmen, who then sell the books door-to-door. Southwestern employed 6800 college students last year, more than anyone but the federal government, and expects to hire between 7000 and 8000 this summer...
Because businesses select from applicant pools of equally skilled whites and minorities, employers no longer hire minority applicants voluntarily, Allison said. When courts had to impose requirements, affirmative action died, he said...
Director Corn, a respected professor of occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh, who was appointed to head OSHA late last year, is determined to make the agency more effective. Corn is moving to hire 250 new inspectors and expand the agency's training program to focus more on worker health. Of 1,200 OSHA inspectors, only 135 are industrial hygienists. "OSHA has taken a hell of a rapping for petty enforcement," says Corn. "It was deserved. We've concentrated far too much on safety and not enough on health...
...books you read are written by the people your dean doesn't have the guts to hire," Kozol said, citing as an example the work of Paolo Friere, an educator whom Harvard did not tenure in the late 1960s...