Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yasenak, 33, looks like the kind of neighborhood soldier Norman Rockwell painted. Although he is a former drill sergeant, as a recruiter he thinks it best not to insist or shove. Rather, his specialty is a kind of sober sweet talk about experience and cash bonuses and duty. Last year he persuaded 47 men and women to join the Army and Army Reserve, more than half again as many as his quota. "No," he corrects with deadpan good humor, "we don't have quotas. We have missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people...
...downtown Peking's Tiananmen Square, the ritualistic rhythms clicked into high gear. A mob of choreographed schoolchildren waved enormous paper flowers toward the Reagans and chanted, in Chinese, "Welcome, welcome-warm welcome!" Across the square, crack drill squads of army, navy and air force troops stood at attention, bayonets fixed, and a People's Liberation Army unit fired off a 21-gun artillery salute. But the most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young...
...common are contested land titles-the phrasing itself has the ring of Indian argot: "clouded title." Then there are the occasional contested mineral rights. And now there are the very popular-here the parch in everybody's throat-contested water rights. In a region where you have to drill down practically to the Yangtze River to bring in a well, at a cost of $5 or $6 a foot, water is wealth. You rarely find surface water without finding Indians who found it first. This arrangement begets harsh feelings and busy courts. Into the thick of things, the crowded...
...investigation which led to yesterday's arrests began with an apparently insignificant complaint of a stolen drill press six months ago. During the investigation into the incident--which eventually led to the recovery of the drill press--police developed an anonymous source which informed on the ring...
Before reporting to the Pirates, Kaat had occasion to serve as a counselor in one of those "fantasy camps" now in vogue, where big leaguers present and past drill middle-aged dreamers at perhaps $2,500 a head. "There was this woman playing second base, a 50-year-old woman," he says, "who kept getting bowled over by the runners and still kept coming up holding the ball. She was a gamer. The enthusiasm of those people-I'm not kidding, you had to drag them off the field. Well, it was inspiring." As the other Pirates start...