Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affiliation with the University. "During a very peak season, there may have been one or two employees who are not Harvard students. When I was made aware that that happened, those employees got no more jobs," Ryan said. "What we have to do is make better efforts earlier to recruit people to work over Christmas...
...rigid rules on agents' appearance were rescinded: "I've no hangup on white shirts," he says. As a result, mod shirts and ties are blossoming. Hair to the collar and sideburns to the bottom of the ear are now permitted. Gray has established a special division to recruit more black, Spanish-speaking and other minority-group agents. The new division will also hear agents' grievances, which should be a boon to bureau morale, and will help in the agency's pioneering recruitment of women agents...
...many institutions. California's huge, 19-campus state college and university system lost not only $1,000,000 in tuition when its fulltime enrollment declined by 4,530 this year, but another $2.9 million in state support, which fluctuates according to the number of students enrolled. To recruit new students, some colleges have resorted to colorful brochures, radio commercials and high-pressure salesmanship. At the University of Southern California, professors themselves are making follow-up phone calls to prospective students, and the appeals to ordinary high school graduates have been compared to the recruiting of athletes in previous years...
...motels. He turned for contacts and credit help to a fellow Memphian, Walter Johnson, one of the country's biggest real estate developers and then a director of the National Association of Home Builders. Johnson became vice chairman of Holiday Inns, a job he still holds, and helped recruit franchisees from among his business friends all over the country. Wilson and Johnson sold the first franchise in Clarksdale, Miss., for $500 and a flat fee of 5? per night for each occupied room. In return, the franchisee got Holiday Inns' plans and national advertising. Applications began to flow...
...Hiram Scott, now shakes his head as he recalls the town's rosy dreams: "We figured the economic impact of a college would be as big as any industry." With other local businessmen, Kosman raised $5,463,000 and hired a president who flew around the country to recruit students. When the college opened in 1965, one Chamber of Commerce official crowed, "We are not just a sugar-beet and cattle-raising town any more." But Kosman admits, "We were short of cash from the word...