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I answer this as an American who has worked in Human Resources (i.e. hiring) for two different cruise lines.They could, but they have sound financial reasons not to. Salaries for most cruise ship crew are below minimum wage for Americans. That being said, it’s often 2–3–4x the minimum monthly salary for a college graduate in their home countries, which is why there are ALWAYS hundreds of people lined up at hiring agencies in the Philippines, India, Indonesia, and Eastern Europe.The positions that Americans would take these days are limited. Americans mostly work in staff/officer positions, such as entertainment/stage management, youth staff, cruise activity staff, and HR/Training, because the salaries are high enough to justify it.The salaries for staff/officers actually aren’t bad, considering you have 0 living costs while you’re onboard; if you don’t have rent/car/utility payments, that really racks up. I make about $20k more per year being land-based now, but I was saving more per year on ships.To be blunt, working on a cruise ship is intense. For most positions, it’s LONG hours, and you don’t have a day off for your entire contract. There is a perception on cruise ships that Americans won't work as hard as other nationalities. There’s a famous book by Brian Bruns about him working as a waiter on Carnival Cruise Lines as the only American. While his stories of ship/party life are sorely outdated and no longer relevant, his description of the work environment for Americans in non-staff/officer positions is still accurate. Even in Staff/Officer positions, some people just can’t handle the workload/travel/being away from home. They come onboard expecting a huge vacation/party, and then reality hits and they bail.To rebut a previous answer, there are no legal restrictions to hiring Americans on cruise ships. In fact, it’s much easier, because they do not have to apply for the multiple visas that many nationalities need to work on ships (C1/D, Schengen, etc). 99% of cruise ships are not American flagged, so they do not have US labor union rules to follow; on Royal Caribbean, for example, we were all members of the Norwegian Seafarer’s Union on Bahamas-flagged ships. Americans are not required to be part of the Merchant Marine unless on a US-flagged ship.

By the time the show opens, the director has usually moved on to their next job. The show is in the hands of the stage manager, who runs the actual performances. They will generally be “calling the show”: working from a script with every line, every sound cue, every light cue, every set change, every supernumerary, every costume change… basically everything everythingeverything.If an actor is adlibbing, everybody in the vicinity knows it. They’re often forbidden to under the terms of the licensing agreement (Bobbling a line one night isn’t a problem, but regularly changing the text can be a contract violation.) If it were to be a problem, I suppose a producer would step in. (Before that, the stage manager will give the actor a talking-to. This will not be pleasant.)The producer isn’t usually present; they’re business managers. But they’d hear about it, hopefully before it turned into a lawsuit for breach of contract.

Well, this is a tradition to carry out the trading for one hour to mark the beginning of new traditional accounting year.Many business entities kept their accounts from Deepavali to Deepavali earlier. Some still do it.It is in honour of these customs that BSE started MOORAT TRADING in 1979.The custom is still followed.Why the day ended in the RED ? :The exchanges are only facilitators of trades.The market direction is decided by the global trends and FII and DII inflows and outflows.In matters of money there is nothing like an auspicious day when the outcome of the day is to be stage managed.The trades and money flows are for real.One can not ignore global trends.Heng Seng ( Hong Kong Index) had fallen by 1.8% earlier in the day and Europe was down.By the time our markets were trading, US markets also opened in the red and that added further pressure which resulted in the steep decline we saw.For this one day, only the trading hours are reduced to one hour, everything else is same. You get same contract notes, same P&L, nothing is different.Why allow it to end in the RED? :There is no one who allows or disallows the markets.The market is too big to be manipulated.The Indices are the sum of what happens in the 30 stocks ( SENSEX) and 50 stocks ( NIFTY ) and are moved only by the trades conducted.If the outcome is positive, it is welcome.If it is negative, so be it.It is just another day.I hope this answers your question.Thanks for reading.