Word: poaches
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...retain the rights of indigenous people, you see it in Canadian bear hunting laws, you see it with bald eagle feathers here in the States, you see it with walrus and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But people try to take advantage of that by hiring local people to poach for them. There's the case that I cover in Animal Investigators about the guy who was working with government officials in Brazil, who would illegally hire native Indians to poach the animals. They'd do grocery lists, it would be like, "I need 44 jaguar teeth, I need this...
...vision for the program that we worked together to implement,” she said. Goodman’s departure marks one of the rare instances of tenured professors leaving the Law School in recent years—the hiring frenzy in the past five years has seen Harvard poach more than a few distinguished legal scholars from rival institutions, including NYU. But NYU has also embarked upon an ambitious faculty recruitment campaign, hiring almost 20 full professors away from other law schools since 2004. Several professors at the Law School said that Goodman chose to relocate largely because...
...still high-and easy for workers to come across small companies since there are so many of them. Once the economy is chugging along at full-steam and the labor market is tight, larger companies regain the advantage, since they're likely able to offer more money-and poach from smaller outfits...
...Itskhoki, the Economics Ph.D. student, said that despite the cuts Harvard might have the upper hand in the long-run, foregoing aggressive hiring now while assuming that it can poach the best young talent later...
...Given the uncertainty, there have been reports of business rivals trying to poach Satyam's employees and customers, which could make it harder for the company, which is suffering a cash squeeze, to continue operating. The government has stepped in and appointed a new board consisting of heavyweights from India's corporate sector, but officials say a bailout is not needed. Satyam is seeking bank loans to help cover salaries and other operating expenses as it tries to regain its balance...