EDITORIAL : HELP WANTED.An energetic go-getter with a background in education, finance, environmental law and construction is being sought to head the nation's second-largest school district. Great salary, long-term contract and generous benefits package. (By reading this ad you've already started accruing vacation and sick time.) Compensation includes extraordinary offer of mineral rights under a former oil field the district owns. (Disclosure: Demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. of buildings may be required to claim them, though.) Ideal working conditions. Opportunity to hire own staff. Must be able to work with elected officials who determine policy by sticking their fingers in the air. Actually get to select textbooks for students, but must get dirty building schools. Travel to exotic places, like the state capital, to shake hands to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. See also: Shake with powerful lawmakers. (Just nod when they tell you how to do your job - they hold the purse strings purse strings or purse·strings pl.n. Financial support or resources, or control over them: the politicians who control federal purse strings; tightened the corporate purse strings. .) Performance will be judged on a 1-4 scale, with 4 being mastery of the job and 1 indicating your pals on the board of education are sure you'll do better next time. Vexatious litigants or those prone to start filing lawsuits when criticized or when authority is taken away or undermined will not be considered. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) employees need not apply. Must be able to start by June 2000. Send applications to: Superintendent search, c/o Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Education, 450 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Apply before Christmas and receive a tailored hazardous materials suit. Gas mask gas mask, face covering or device used to protect the wearer from injurious gases and other noxious materials by filtering and purifying inhaled air. In addition to military use (see chemical warfare), gas masks are employed in mining, in industrial chemistry, and by to be provided when job is accepted. |
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