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Al Gore has described these presidential debates as a job interview with the American people, ... I've learned over the years that when somebody embellishes their resume in a job interview, you don't hire them.

You would never hire an accountant to just put in the income side of how much you earn if you have a business. You put in the income and expenses and come up with a net figure.

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

You may not be able to hire Al Green, but local high schools and colleges might have a jazz band or a choir you can afford.

This is definitely an issue for each individual hotel. The hotel general managers are aware that they're going to have to hire an increased number of people with language capacity and also look into training in terms of the cultural nuances.

This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?

This is reading what people put into the public domain, ... If you hire a billboard, and you write what you're saying on the billboard, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy for the FBI driving by to look at the billboard and read it.

The university has a budget and some of it goes to Academic Affairs. Every year within their budget they can hire 'X' number of teachers. The president has decided to add to that amount with the $1 million this year.

The way they hire people as coaches first, teachers second... that alone kind of shows you the difference, the value they place on football.

This funding will be used to hire new federal and state prosecutors, support investigators, provide training, and develop and promote community outreach efforts,

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ... Keep the money in the country if you can. Canada has got the acts that can do the job in any vein.

They've got a database of images and they sell it to newspapers, magazines, ad agencies and it's a lot cheaper for these outfits now to license an image from Getty than to hire a photographer to go out and take the image, ... So it's a money saver right now. But as the business evolves, it's building a dominant position, name and distribution strategy and we think it can very much control this market.

They told the new hire that even though he might have a contract, his career there was over.

Almost every quarter I can remember people have come up with reasons to explain away earnings gains. The truth is that earnings are doing better, and the hope is that, because earnings are improving, companies will begin to hire and spend money on technology.

All of my business life, the Fed has played defense. Now it's crossed the scrimmage line and started playing offense. It's brought us to rates so low that even multimillionaires can't live off the yield. The Fed wants you to buy bonds, buy stocks, start a business, hire some people, and it is going to continue to hammer at you until you do it.

Although I am very impressed with Harris Rainbow's coaching abilities, I am more impressed with him as a man. He has a way with kids. If you don't hire him, I would love to.

They don't really have the right to do that, ... In a nutshell, no one had ever refused their demand to hire a consultant. And so I suppose we insulted them, and their response was, 'OK, if you're not going to do what we tell you to do, we're going to shut you down.'

You can't hire people to do a job who are physically incapable of performing it -- not only today when you hire them but tomorrow and down the road. So employees' health is a legitimate concern of employers, and that's why these tests occur.

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.

There is one and only one apprentice. And if you're going to hire someone tonight, it should be one (person only).

There really was no way to predict where the successful strands would come in the e-world. If you take a company like Yahoo, they got there early, with a lot of money, and were able to go out and hire the very best people.

There may be a housekeeper working in dining services. We would rather invest in them and invest in their education than hire someone else. Who knows? They (new hires) may not work out or fit in the Erickson culture.

This is the hardest I have ever worked in trying to ask the government to let Northwest pay. All we're trying to do is pay what we owe currently $3.8 billion, as opposed to terminating and dumping the liability on the government. And in order to be allowed to pay, I have had to hire a number of people to help me explain.

This just echoes what I've heard all over the state. State employees just don't trust the governor. They don't trust him with their pensions, they don't trust him to hire competent managers, they don't trust him with the state budget.

This is why you hire professionals to do this,

At least that might allow us to hire some people back.

At least one major materials and manufacturing company in the United States we spoke to has already begun outsourcing analytical services to a research center in India. When we spoke to users about the expense of owning and maintaining inspection tools, the biggest expense is the fact you need to hire and pay a highly trained scientist to successfully operate it, and there's big opportunity there for outsourcing.

At a time of economic uncertainty and weaker recruitment, persuading employers to hire more people from the benefit roll could prove an uphill task.

At every opportunity we've had to hire a coach, we've went out there and identified the best coach that would fit the needs that we have.

At every opportunity that we've had to hire a coach, we went out there and identified the best coach that would fit the needs that we had.

At Dell, we're on a mission to find, hire and develop diverse talent. Thurmond has galvanized our internal belief that to be a successful company and a great place to work, Dell must leverage the similarities and differences of employees. The Austin Area Urban League could not have picked a more deserving recipient of its 2006 Whitney M. Young Junior Award.

As we hire rapidly to scale up the company, it is natural to issue a larger number of stock awards than we would otherwise. The cost to the company of these stock awards occurs only over the periods the awards vest, which is when the employees earn the related benefit.

As we give contracts out to people, we tell them we want them to hire locally whenever they can.

The most critical financially related strategy is to figure out who not to hire from the company you are purchasing. This is something we have learned to do better, after having failed miserably at it and seen it cost us 5 to 20 times as much as it should.

A community would need to hire a coordinator. That's why it's not met with open arms by communities. It's a new position for them to fund.

Accountable to no one other than the prime minister, (Robert) Rabinovitch had a free hand to lock out CBC employees and deny service to Canadians. Unlike other corporations, CBC's board cannot hire or fire its CEO.

It's kind of complicated process. You've got to be there an hour ahead of time. You've got to hire security.

It's just natural for him to hire me.

It seems like consumer demand goes up and goes down. It does not track up and up each month, which would give employers confidence they can hire workers and have the work to sustain them.

It's even more important to hire good people and give them good jobs and good wages. They are the people who are going to run your business.

It's easier when the business is doing well, ... Then you can hire the son-in-law that can't get a job anywhere else. That keeps your daughter happy and it keeps (the son-in-law) out of trouble. When the business can't afford a guy like that, then you have to choose.

It's easier to hire somebody with personality and teach them to be a banker than it is to hire a banker with personality, because they're pretty rare.

It's a big one. More and more you're seeing victims put in a position where they feel they have to hire an attorney to represent their best interests in court. Because the reality is, the legal justice system does not do that.

It's a way to leverage your time and money to hire institutional money managers that wouldn't be available to you. Normally, if an individual client wanted just to hire an individual portfolio manager outside of a brokerage firm, sometimes those minimums are anywhere from $1 million to $10 million per account.

It is our hope that if we are able to negotiate a sale, we will be able to work with the new owners to hire the employees. ... We don't have anything within the company for the bakery employees to transfer to.

It might be the most exceptional opportunity Temple's had to hire a football coach because of all the things that are in place that we haven't had,

I tried to get the Redskins to hire him as the general manager, ... Shows you how much influence I had.

It raises the competitive environment for us all. We may hire teachers with less experience.

It's a great value for the studios to hire the same crew, same actors, and film all of them at the same time for the price of one,

It's more cost-effective to hire a consultant. Otherwise, we would have to hire someone for that special need and then lay them off.

It's not that 90 percent gives us universal authority. Ninety percent gives us the financial ability to hire staff and the contractor to run the program.

It's not that 90 percent gives us universal authority, ... Ninety percent gives us the financial ability to hire staff and the contractor to run the program.

It's not a bad idea to hire more firefighters or paramedics. That's not a bad idea in a growing city . . . but before they add that, did they look at everything else they're doing? I find it hard to believe that every dollar the city is spending is how it should be. They couldn't allocate another dollar somewhere else?

For me, James has become much more than an artist doing a piece. He's the kind of guy who when you hire him to do an artistic piece like that wall system, you do it together, but then he's hanging around the office, so you ask his opinion on everything.

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

It's too expensive to hire the wrong person. Anything we can do to help us build the right team is worth it.

It's one of the hallmarks of the concept - personalized friendly carhop service. We really try to hire people that love to engage the customers and have a real friendly demeanor and like to wear roller-skates.

It's not enough to hire a general contractor and say here's a big pile of money, now go to it. Homeowners are generally more satisfied if they're on the site.

It's the president's prerogative to hire his or her team in consultation with the Board of Trustees,

It smacks of unfairness. School board members don't come into the hearing with a clean and open mind. Their bias is to support the superintendent. School boards hire superintendents, and they tend to want to support the guy they brought in.

It's almost like a lobbyist tax, to hire somebody out of K Street (the Washington lobbyists) with local taxes and tuition dollars to work on their behalf.

It's another booster shot for our local economy. The Amgen folks want to hire people within our labor force.

It's been a very successful program for us, We would prefer to have the opportunity to identify and hire more individuals on a local basis than we would to rely on a third-party source to get through the course of a busy time period.

It's rare that someone will call and say, 'I'll hire you as a lawyer' because they've seen the show.

Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

That's the biggest difference. The ability to fire people and hire your people to take their place.

That is clearly a concern, and police chiefs are very uneasy about that possibility. The question is, do we keep our radio cars empty or hire people who a few years ago we wouldn't have hired? It is very problematic.

That's a function of companies wanting to feel confident that the economy is up and running again before they hire back. If they do want to ramp up activities, they do it by grinding more out of existing people.

That's a first for me. But it's a great hire for the school community.

It's simple economics. When someone is going to increase your costs, it's going to have an adverse affect on your business. It will either make (businesses) cut jobs or not hire new ones.

Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.

The average age here is 50. Most of the people we hire have 20 to 25 years of experience. We like experience.

The agency has a mission, and the mission is to get drunks off the road. They also hire the judges. There's no way you can get around those conflicts.

That guy is one of the first people I would hire if I had a chance to put together a staff. He's a dedicated, organized, self-motivated guy, and a tremendous teacher.

That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projects. If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.

Swift is hiring, and if there are qualified drivers, we will get them employed right away. They may want to get home and see if they can drive for the company they worked for before. . . . If they meet our qualifications, we will hire them.

It's important to hit 'singles' by bringing in those industries which hire two or ten or 50 people. You can't just think about hitting 'home runs' with a big factory.

I told Coach Myers I wasn't commuting. Hopefully, she'll hire me.

It'll happen - we're human, ... There's no mechanical way to do this. In a growth mode, you need to hire more people.

It's great when somebody comes at you and says, 'We have a big serious movie and we want to hire you because you're a serious person'. Particularly in today's world, when you spend so much of your time pretending that you're not.

It's difficult to hire up real fast because we want people who are trained and knowledgeable about the cultures we're working with.

It was not retaliation. It was decided we needed a change. We decided to hire a proven leader.

I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'

I've had a 10 percent increase in my staff in the last 60 days, ... This (down) market has provided a wonderful growth opportunity. Now, we can hire top talent that a year ago was very hard to attract.

No matter what I did in my career, people would always hire me off of the short. It was a touchstone for people. They have been telling me for years, 'You should do something with that short.' Disney, at one point, wanted to make a Little Rascals-type of thing.

It was one of the biggest musical moments of my life. From then on, Dennis tried to hire us for sessions.

I want to come in and have a chance to evaluate it all. I think that's important that the men that I hire (as coaches), we'll all sit together.

It took us about two or three months to find and hire him (Bryant), but we're going to do it more hurriedly this time, ... I'd like to see a deadline for finding a replacement of no more than 30 days.

The turnout was good for the job fair, but we're still looking to hire people.

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.

A city or any other special interest that doesn't hire a lobbyist will tend to be overlooked by lawmakers.

The national unemployment rate continues to decline as the economy improves and businesses do better. Companies need to hire at a faster rate this year. That's making it easier for (students) to find employment.

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.

It's natural for employers to hire good-looking people to deal with the public.

Small businesses tend to be too small to hire consultants to help meet safety regulations. Sometimes small business owners are afraid of getting on Labor and Industries' radar screen.

Small businesses are an extremely important source of new jobs in California, and I am heartened that they are set to increase their staffing level this year. As those companies begin to hire additional workers, however, they are likely to find it more difficult to locate the best-suited individuals for the positions available, because the California labor market is becoming increasingly tight.

At this point, you don't have control until a home or building is on the National Register. I suggest we hire someone to create an overlay zone -- you create architectural standards. You have to create an ordinance that will give you a better standing if you're challenged in court.

The intent is to hire an individual who can both foster connections with the existing research in engineering and life sciences at Princeton as well as start new research activities and grow in this area.