Ever since Jon and Liz began to go out more frequently, Jon has started hiring pet sitters to look after Garfield and Odie, though they don't always work out.

Once he has established his preeminence in Metropolis, Luthor takes vengeance on Griggs, secretly hiring him to assassinate Frank Berkowitz, the city's popular four-term mayor, who refuses to knuckle under to Luthor's dominance, then personally killing him once the deed is done.

Labor market is highly regulated, hiring a worker is cumbersome, firing a worker is difficult and unemployment has risen to 94 % ( at the end of 2008 ; the figure was 80 % in 2005 ).

The imputed income an owner receives from an investment in owner-occupied housing has always escaped taxation, much like the imputed ( estimated ) income someone receives from doing his own cooking instead of hiring a chef, but the Act changed the treatment of imputed rent, local property taxes, and mortgage interest payments to favor homeownership, while phasing out many investment incentives for rental housing.

By hiring a licensed and experienced investigator they could unearth information that the investment is risky and or that the investor has suspicious red flags in his or her background.

Among the other factors relevant to this inquiry are the skill required ; the source of the instrumentalities and tools ; the location of the work ; the duration of the relationship between the parties ; whether the hiring party has the right to assign additional projects to the hired party ; the extent of the hired party's discretion over when and how long to work ; the method of payment ; the hired party's role in hiring and paying assistants ; whether the hiring party is in business ; the provision of employee benefits ; and the tax treatment of the hired party.

When forced to rely on an implied license, a hiring party often finds that it has only limited rights to alter, update, or transform the work for which it paid.

The use of graphology in the hiring process has been criticized on ethical grounds and on legal grounds.

The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).

USMS's hiring process has a nondisclosure agreement, so the specific details of the process are not completely revealed ; however applicants must pass a written test, an oral board interview, an extensive background investigation, a medical examination, a drug test, and multiple fitness in total exams ( FIT ) even to be considered to be selected for training.

Reggie is also a bassist for The Archies and occasionally lead guitarist after Archie, and naturally thinks of himself as the most important and talented member of the group — and has gone to great lengths to prove it, such as hiring groupies to scream his name during concerts.

The Fire Board oversees the fire department and has final approval of annual budgets, hiring and firing, expenditures not previously budgeted, and future planning.

John Searle has used the theory of speech acts to explore the nature of social / institutional reality, so as to describe such aspects of social reality which he instances under the rubrics of “ marriage, property, hiring, firing, war, revolutions, cocktail parties, governments, meetings, unions, parliaments, corporations, laws, restaurants, vacations, lawyers, professors, doctors, medieval knights, and taxes, for example ”.

Ouchi's premise has the potential to change school systems across the country as local principals control more of their own budgets to make creative hiring decisions aimed at reducing to eighty the total number of students each teacher interacts with on a given day.

In recent years, however, there has been a shift toward hiring more male workers due to labor shortages and the emergence of heavier industries operating within maquiladoras.

More recently, SAS Institute has followed the lead of other major corporate software suppliers by offering SAS Certification for SAS programmers, users, and developers to eliminate some of the risk of hiring individuals of unknown ability ; like many such programs, it has met with mixed success.

Since 2005, Kia has focused on the European market and has identified design as its " core future growth engine "— leading to the hiring of Peter Schreyer in 2006 as Chief Design Officer and his subsequent creation of a new corporate grille known as the ' Tiger Nose '.

After hiring many of Germany's best feature writers, Der Spiegel has become known for its " Edelfedern " (' noble quills '— wordsmiths ).

" Rivaldo's hiring by Kabuscorp – which is a very modest club in Angola – has not attracted as much enthusiasm as you might expect ," says Cunha, who works for Luanda's LAC radio station.

A well noted car enthusiast, he has had a succession of Ferraris, but stopped buying them after realising that the depreciation and running costs were greater than hiring a private plane.

There are also instances in which an existing band added a prominent new member or members, where the resulting group might have been considered a supergroup had it not kept its original band name, such as Van Halen after recruiting Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone, and the Eagles after hiring Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, and Styx, hiring Lawrence Gowan, and Ricky Phillips.

Today, many mainstream magazines such as Time which would once have considered the idea of hiring gossip columnists to pen articles to have been beneath their stature, have sections titled " People " or " Entertainment ".

Nimoy's hiring of Meyer was not only beneficial because Meyer knew the material and could write fast ( having produced The Wrath of Khans screenplay in twelve days ), but if Meyer was to direct it would offset any acrimony from Shatner, whose ire would have been aroused if Nimoy returned to direct his third Star Trek feature after The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

With the hiring of Portuguese national team player Ticha Penicheiro, popular player Ruthie Bolton and prolific scorer Yolanda Griffith, all of whom have been WNBA All-Stars, the Monarchs have been able to make the playoffs almost every year so far, but were normally eliminated before reaching the WNBA Finals.

After a week of frantic effort hiring staff, borrowing a tin shed at the RAAF base at Laverton because Essendon Airport had been turned into mud by heavy rain, creating operations manuals, passenger manifests, tickets, and load sheets — even making passenger steps and baggage carts because there was no time to buy them in the ordinary way — Captains Hepburn and Nickels took off from Laverton at 5: 45 am bound for Sydney.

In the past, lists of union members have been shared or circulated between multiple organizations to prevent hiring of employees who have been critical of management or advocated on behalf of members of their profession.

The Soviet Union subsequently refused to acknowledge Lie as Secretary General and, having been accused by Joseph McCarthy of hiring " disloyal " Americansan allegation that he attributed to the pressing need for civil servants following the establishment of the UNLie resigned on November 10, 1952.

Robert Evans took the blame for hiring Coppola while the director responded that if he had not been hired, the film would have never been made.

By September 1948, the Red Scare began to take hold, and Conant called for a ban on hiring teachers who were Communists, although not for the dismissal of those who had already been hired.

The sense of the argument is along these lines: equal opportunity rules regarding, say, a hiring decision within a factory, made to bring about greater fairness, violate a factory owner's rights to run the factory as he or she sees best ; it has been argued that a factory owner's right to property encompasses all decision-making within the factory as being part of those property rights.

Although Platt was instrumental in hiring Fiorina, he was viewed as a " has been " as she reportedly stopped seeking his advice a few weeks after she joined HP.

Boeing was hiring, the economy was booming, and while there had been no successful regional planning, the city had not yet grown quite large enough to feel the strain.

Boeing was hiring, the economy was booming, and while there had been no successful regional planning, the city had not yet grown quite large enough.

* 1947: With the hiring of staff and building of laboratories well in hand, Slater begins: " The year in the Physics Department, as in the rest of the Institute, was one of starting the large-scale teaching of returned veterans and other students whose academic careers had been interrupted by the war.

Although NCSSM has been lauded for its academic programs, it has also been the source of significant controversy ; disputes over residential, hiring, and academic policies have garnered media attention over time.

Walter, meanwhile, has been trying to save his floundering business by hiring the temperamental bestselling writer Miles Finch ( Peter Dinklage ).

While business had been slow or depressed in spring 1861 because of war fears and Southern boycotts, by fall business was hiring again, offering young men jobs that were an alternative way to help win the war.

One way that this can be done, other than by hiring new high-priced professors, is by constantly encouraging the department members to raise their standards of performance.

You can keep your machinery investment down by buying good secondhand machinery, by sharing the cost and upkeep of machinery with a neighbor, and by hiring someone with machinery to do certain jobs.

The company incurred some $10 million of expenses attributable to four factors: advertising to attract new employees, hiring and training them, extra overtime, and defective work performed by the new workers.

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

The club responded by hiring Dusty Baker and by making some major moves in ' 03.

They might include the hiring of actors, the development of a season of plays or operas with a sense of coherence among them, assistance with and editing of new plays or operas by resident or guest playwrights or composers / librettists, the creation of programs or accompanying educational services, helping the director with rehearsals, and serving as elucidator of history or spokesperson for deceased or otherwise absent playwrights or composers.

For instance an employee may be discriminated against by being asked discriminatory questions during a job interview, or by an employer not hiring or promoting, unequally paying, or wrongfully terminating, an employee based on her ( or his ) gender.

The hiring of labor power only results in the production of goods or services (" use-values ") when organized and regulated ( often by the " management ").

In 1939, he was selected to be part of a musical revue " One for the Money " produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors.

When Hughes found out about the rival film, he did everything he could to sabotage The Dawn Patrol by harassing Hawks and other studio personal, hiring a spy that was quickly caught and finally suing First National for copyright infringement.

Jim Irsay began to shape the Colts one year after assuming control from his father by firing head coach Lindy Infante and hiring Bill Polian to run as the general manager of the organization.

Owner Jim Irsay started to again rebuild the Colts during the 2012 offseason and began by hiring a new general manager in Ryan Grigson and new head coach in Chuck Pagano.

* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.

The Jaguars ' hiring of Coughlin contrasted with the hiring moves made by their fellow expansion team.

Krupp was able to hide this activity from Allied inspectors for five years, and kept up his engineers ’ skills by hiring them out to Eastern European governments including Russia.

Another survey in 2007 conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found that 73 % of labor economists surveyed in the United States believed a 150 % of the then-current minimum wage would result in employment losses and 68 % believed a mandated minimum wage would cause an increase in hiring of workers with greater skills.

Studio Ghibli doesn't follow contemporary film studios by hiring on staff for each film, their crew is permanent.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".