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...talent hunt is most frantic at the top. The demand for executives making $200,000 or more surged 86% last year, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The trade group also found a 37% jump in assignments to find managers for slots paying from $100,000 to $200,000. Last month a Korn/Ferry survey of 750 major employers across the U.S. showed an estimated 50% first-quarter increase in the hiring of executives earning more than...
Companies making consumer products from computers to packaged foods are the most active in the talent hunt. The buoyant spending tide lifted consumer firms' demand for executives by 33% last year. The financial-services field, meanwhile, recorded a 23% gain. Commercial bankers have been in especially short supply. A 32-year-old banker might already be making $60,000, says David Healey, president of Balch & Watson, a search firm in suburban Minneapolis. "Those individuals can sit at their desks and get calls virtually every day from executive recruiters...
...chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda Hunt received the best supporting actress award for playing a male dwarf in The Year of Living Dangerously; and Fanny and Alexander, the last major feature Ingmar Bergman has said he will ever direct, took the prize for best foreign picture...
DIED. Christopher Wilder, 39, playboy race driver, suspected multiple kidnaper-rapist-murderer and object of a nationwide FBI man hunt who in the past two months left a blood-spattered trail of at least eleven new victims first in Florida and then as he fled to Nevada and back to the Northeast; after being shot twice, possibly with his own gun, during a struggle that occurred when two state policemen confronted him at a gas station; in Colebrook, N.H., ten miles from the Canadian border...
...Hunt said that the new record-keeping requirements would require the staffing of "a bright secretary of a comparable physician." There are currently no regulation concerning record-keeping. Hunt said...