Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such demands, ex-recruiters and Marine lawyers from across the country testified that recruiters have gone to such lengths as enlisting a violence-prone youth out of a juvenile home and even signing up a fictitious candidate. To qualify a youth with a long police record, a recruiter would drop the first letter of the candidate's name so that the police check would turn up no trace of his crimes. Schreiber told recruiters to ask Marine hopefuls leading questions like, "You haven't smoked marijuana, have you?" Answers, of course, were negative. Some recruiters coach candidates...
Once enlisted, these unfit Marines constitute a new class of military untouchables. The U.S. Court of Military Appeals has ruled that a fraudulently recruited serviceman cannot be court-martialed. Thus the Marines had to drop a case against an enlisted man who was charged with stealing TNT from his unit at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, because his recruiter had forged his high school diploma and concealed his juvenile crime record to qualify him for service...
...have a perverse effect. Last week, for example, President Carter said at his news conference that congressional passage at long last of his battered energy legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar. Next day the dollar hit yet another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence...
...Chicago: "Can you tell me if it's logical to have a 7½% [downward] movement of the dollar against the Swiss franc in a single day? It's out of this world!" Money traders worry quite as much as any finance minister about what the drop in the world's central trading currency is doing to the global structure of finance. Says Michel Grare, trader for Credit Lyonnais, a major French bank: "It's very worrying if one can't believe in the U.S. What, after all, is Switzerland? It could be fragile...
Each black student must, therefore, act on his or her own. Each must, in the words of Booker T. Washington, "drop you bucket where you are," which means that each student must act within his or her immediate context, and wait not upon the weight of the herd to propel change...