Word: supervisor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hangs over employment practices. Stokes says that affirmative action guidelines underlie all of Harvard's hiring. Her office realizes that the burden of proof is upon the employer and consequently has made an extra effort "to both promote and protect" women and minority group applicants and employees. Arlene Regan, supervisor in the Internal Audit Department, says that people a Harvard are terribly discrimnation-conscious...
...says, "Promotion is basically centered not around what you know but who you know." There is more than a tinge of anger and frustration in her voice. A college degree she explains, invariably takes precedence to experience. In the student term bill department, for example, there are no women supervisors. The supervisor is Dartmouth-educated J.P. Mensel--a young, white male. Mensel spent a year working in the hotel business before he came to Harvard. Robert Scott, director of the Office for Financial Assistance, notes that, "I've never felt discriminated against as a white male...
...right film (from Kodak at $30 a one-shot roll). Last summer he set out in a rented Dodge van with his wife Cynthia and their son Gray, 10, to cover 30 states in 100 carefully planned days. Most often people were friendly and helpful. In Butte, Mont., a supervisor led the Dantzics around a mine for two days to find the right vantage point; in San Antonio a cop held up traffic while they took a picture of the Alamo; in Albuquerque a bank president escorted them to the roof of his bank to scout the view. Only...
...stop out, the year (or years) off can prove more arduous than college itself. Stanford Senior Doug Patt, a campus graybeard at 28, has twice interrupted his college career to "see how life is out there in the streets." What he saw, in such jobs as that of supervisor at an Alaska salmon cannery, persuaded him to return for his degree last fall, almost a decade after he entered college. Rice University Senior Charles Lansdell, another 28-year-old, who is graduating this spring, spent three years as a clerk at the First City National Bank of Houston. Among...
Bell reviewed this evidence last April and approved an indictment against the supervisor of Squad 47, John Kearney, 55, on five counts of illegal wiretapping, intercepting mail and conspiracy. That action drew a storm of protest from the FBI's ranks. By Bell's estimate, letters ran 100 to 1 against his decision. Some agents took the unprecedented step of even picketing the FBI's New York headquarters. Morale sagged in FBI offices across the country...