Word: employment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important is the convention business that 117 U.S. cities employ professional staffs to attract meetings. New York City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has five traveling salesmen trying to persuade trade and professional groups to gather in the Big Apple. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau also has a field force of five convention hunters out plugging the Big Peach. Miami employs four to tout the Big Orange, while Waikiki sent a representative to Austria to bag the Lions International for the Big Pineapple...
...lower paying jobs so as to deny them the bargaining chips with which to enter the political process effectively, while the oppression itself is justified by both economic and philosophical arguments as to the educational, mental and emotional deficiencies of the oppressed group making it economically irrational to employ members of the group in supervisory positions. Whether the political/philosophical belief precedes the economic/commercial interest or is simply a justificatory mask for the latter, I shall leave to your own views of Marx...
...products that will eventually roll off assembly lines. In a move that is heretical by Marxist, let alone Maoist, standards, Peking has also authorized capitalist use of cheap Chinese labor. In exchange for modern U.S. equipment for Chinese factories, Peking has concluded agreements with two American firms, which will employ Chinese workers who are paid about $25 a month, to make women's sportswear and men's corduroy suits...
China and Taiwan employ the same system in competing for defectors. Prices in Taiwan for Communist pilots range from 6,000 taels of gold (worth about $900,000) for a defector flying a late-model TU-16 bomber to 500 taels (about $75,000) for a pilot with an obsolete cargo aircraft. So far, four pilots have qualified for rewards, the latest in July 1977. Mainland China offers higher prices - up to 7,000 taels (about $1,050,000) for a Nationalist pilot in a Phantom fighter - but so far there have been no takers...
From Bellow he went on to employ dozens of translators-including Joseph, I.J. Singer's son. Though Isaac Bashevis Singer has long since gained fluency in English, he continues to write in his mother tongue. "It strikes one as a kind of inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels...