Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stringer will eliminate the individual fiefdoms of the Evening News, Morning News, Nightwatch and the weekend news, and toss all staff members into a "net first" news pool. Producers, correspondents and technicians will be assigned to the next breaking story, no matter what its program destination; despite trepidations at Evening News, CBS executives insist the program will have first call on personnel. With this system, Stringer argues, "you can use all your resources at a single time. Everybody can charge when necessary...
Royer said last year's general pool of more than 2000 applicants included 500 Black women, while almost a quarter of the 500 students in last year's freshman class identified themselves as minorities. Of these, the largest percentage was Asian, the next largest was Black, and the smallest was Hispanic, she said...
...university opposes the step system for wages that the union prefers, under which the wage pool would be redistributed so that long-time workers would automatically receive higher wages than new workers...
...union bargaining committee is now considering the university's conciliatory proposal. It offers a split increase in wage raises, under which half of the increase would be added to the wage pool at the start of each half of the fiscal year, Tufford said...
...number of confounding factors that might contribute to such behavior are absent: alcoholism, drug abuse, unemployment, divorce and violence are extremely rare. In addition, the Amish have large families (seven children on average) and keep genealogical records worthy of Mendel. Best of all, they represent a closed genetic pool. All 12,500 Amish in Lancaster County are descended from 20 or 30 couples who emigrated from Europe in the early 1700s, and only a handful of outsiders have ever married...