Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were fire bombing their headquarters, are flourishing again. The military academies are enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas '83, he should go and enlist immediately. In recent years, there has never been such a queue to join the Army...
Mandatory National Service, as Thomas and most proponents envision it, would force each citizen at the age of 18 to enlist with the government for a year of work. Each person would have the choice of serving with the armed forces or being assigned to some kind of non-profit or public works organization at the minimum wage or lower. The program would cost an estimated $35 billion...
...flight from justice have yet to be told, but when he is brought to trial a third time, a Pandora's box of incriminating evidence against a number of French collaborators may be opened. The trial could even provide embarrassing details of a U.S. scheme to enlist the former Gestapo officer as an intelligence source after World...
...unjust measures promulgated by that state. I would embrace punishment in the spirit of these words of Gandhi's: "We seek arrest because the so-called freedom is slavery." I would hope to show the way to true freedom, not the sort of freedom that seeks to enlist men in a war machine that can only exist by draining attention and money away from humane causes...
...that the impact of jobs programs usually comes only after recovery is under way. House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois appointed a ten-member task force to write a jobs bill. Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to enlist his support. Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs...