Word: jobbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...More jobs may be on the way. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a forum at Pace University in New York City, predicted that many more Americans would see the effects of the $787 billion Recovery Act in the next three months than had seen them in the past three. "People are at work in every state in the nation that would not be at work if not for the act," said Biden. "But the speed of job growth will really pick up in the next few months...
Last week, the White House declared that the economic stimulus plan has already created 150,000 jobs around the country. This week, the White House was looking to put some anecdotal meat on that figure. The Pace University event brought the Vice President together with a number of business owners and executives who said they had made hundreds of hires in the past few months that they probably would not have made if the stimulus plan had not passed. In fact, a number of executives said they had even been planning layoffs coming into the year, but were able...
...objective knowledge. At Harvard, I have learned that, in fact, universities are funded by government, foundations, alumni, and other private donors who often thereby determine which forms of knowledge are useful and prestigious. Sometimes, unreasoned ethnic interests prevail, as when, in 2006, a top scholar was denied a job at Harvard on account of his non-specialist critique of Zionism...
...gain a better grasp on student opinion. However, students must not lose interest in the budget process—for as Harvard reshapes and restructures, student opinion must be heard. We must build on the energy from the rally, and while it is the UC’s job to provide students the forums and opportunities to get involved, these efforts will not succeed unless we have students willing to participate. The UC cannot respond to the budget crisis alone, and I hope that in the next semester students will continue to join forces with the UC and the administration...
Willow Run, almost on the edge of Ann Arbor, Mich., was built not by GM but by Ford, opening in April 1942. From the start, its job was to turn out B-24 bombers, the workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported...