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Since manpower shortages can crimp a company's ability to grow, many businesses have started recruiting as actively as the Army or the Navy does. To attract engineers, Compaq, a fast-expanding computer manufacturer, has chosen the old-fashioned hard sell. For a three-day recruiting drive in Dallas, Compaq sent invitations to 3,000 engineers and blanketed the region with radio and print advertisements. To promote the company's picturesque headquarters, set in a forest in Houston, Compaq imported pine and sweet gum trees, along with park benches and lampposts. The price tag for the extravaganza...
...least one fan expressed the sentiments of reliever Bob Stanley, who felt it was unfair to fire McNamara shortly before the game rather than earlier in the three-day, All-Star break...
...welcome befitting a head of state. An honor guard stood at attention under the Mediterranean sun as Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid pressed his greetings. Later the resilient chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization took his place among 20 Kings, Emirs, Presidents and other leaders who had assembled for a three-day Arab summit...
...number of detainees may keep swelling. Late last week Palestinian leaders called a three-day strike in the occupied territories that shut down virtually all business activity in the West Bank and Gaza. A young Arab was killed by Israeli gunfire and seven others were injured, as authorities broke up a series of West Bank demonstrations. Days earlier, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had held a clandestine meeting with four Arab leaders from the Gaza Strip as part of his campaign to develop a dialogue with a budding local leadership. The idea, he said, was to "get a sense of what...
...Rutgers, however, disagreements on issues and power struggles among student leaders divided the conference. Minority students said that they felt underrepresented and withdrew from the convention. The three-day conference ended in confusion, say students, without a national coalition and with students unsure if one could be established...