Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some companies are considering waiving mandatory retirement for workers with good records; others seek to attract moonlighters by offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...
...most dramatic proposal contained in the 200-page report calls for the creation of a powerful seven-man faculty Board of Educational Development which will seek out and stimulate academic experimentation and innovation. The Board would be empowered to give degrees for projects outside the normal bounds of concentration; and a new vice chancellor would be appointed to serve as a kind of "manager of academic heresy." The Board is expected to be so powerful that one dissenting member of the committee warned it might become a "university within a university...
...research assistant at the Business School has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives this fall...
...recent study completed by the Office shows that if all the wives of students here on visas throughout the country were allowed to seek jobs, only 4000 would join the labor force. "University communities alone could easily absorb these workers without displacing any Americans," Mrs. Hall said...
Foundation leaders agree that their future will be determined less by anything Government might do than by their own ability to turn up significant new ideas. In this, they have unlimited freedom to seek ideas anywhere, and there is great "excitement," says one of them, in the fact that they still enjoy "an infinity of options...