41.   Liberal Party provisional legislator Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee said the government should not hire an outside consultant as it already employed its own experts in general management.

42.   Latief said the government would hire workers for short-term jobs such as digging drainage ditches, dikes and water canal renovation, slum areas rejuvenation and clean water procurement.

43.   Neighboring Kuwait has slashed its budget, frozen government hiring and announced it would sell more state-owned companies to raise revenues.

44.   Museum and monument workers want the government to hire more people, especially for security, and to end a system of temporary contracts.

45.   News reports Monday said the government hired a British law firm to help prosecute the case against Banda.

46.   Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan says reports that his government had hired mercenaries to kill rebel leaders on the secessionist island of Bougainville are inaccurate.

47.   Subway and bus employees have been complaining for months about growing violence in public transport and demanded that the government hire more people to maintain order.

48.   Some members of parliament suggested the government hire foreign mercenaries to fight the rebels, since the Zairian army had failed so miserably in its defense.

49.   Subsequent investigations concluded that the government had hired death squads to kill people seen as threats to national security, including journalists, activists and Kurdish politicians.

50.   The government hired buses, mini-buses and trucks to offer free transport for thousands stranded by the strike.