Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporations have often found it difficult to recruit top foreign talent for their overseas executive suites. Lately, however, laboring for the Yankee dollar has begun to lose its stigma. Last week, in one of the year's more remarkable personnel coups. International Business Machines landed the Earl of Cromer, former governor of the Bank of England, as chairman of its subsidiary IBM United Kingdom holdings...
This convocation calls upon the nation to end once and for all the shame of poverty amid general affluence. Private industry must greatly accelerate its efforts to recruit, train, and hire the hard-core unemployed. When the private sector is unable to provide employment to those who are both able and willing to work, then in a free society the government must of necessity assume the responsibility and act as the employer of last resort or must assure adequate income levels...
...final push, the Viet Cong began drafting men. Today, conscription is one of the Viet Cong's most serious problems, required not for victory but simply to replace the lengthening roster of casualties. Viet Cong troopers are paid only from 300 to 500 per month, v. a government recruit's pay of $27 per month, and few youths in V.C. areas volunteer any more. Instead, they are given an ultimate choice: join or be shot on the spot?a factor that undoubtedly contributes to the record 20,000 Viet Cong defectors so far this year...
...determined in 1964 to integrate staffs without taking teacher preference into consideration. By 1966, the Federation of Teachers decided it could negotiate a better plan by bringing "the experience and aspirations of teachers to the bargaining table." The cooperative agreement included provisions to encourage voluntary teachers transfer and to recruit new teachers for schools that needed them...
...gladioli and publicity in city parks under something called "the Kelly Beautification Program." The average temporary is a housewife, ex-secretary, somewhere "over 35" in age (one Seattle Kelly Girl is 81). But employers figure they come out about even with the temporaries, since permanent employees are expensive to recruit and command fringe benefits that add a third or more to basic wage rates...