Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Typical bonuses for persons with six years of service who re-enlist for three years: an Army infantryman $2,000 and an atomic demolitions munitions specialist $8,000; a Navy boiler technician $10,000 and a nuclear propulsion specialist $12,000; a Marine microwave-equipment repairman $6,000; an Air Force aircraft sheet metal worker $2,000 and an air traffic controller...
...silent majority takes its final steps as Harvard students, a smaller more vocal group will probably linger outside the gates around the Yard to hand out anti-Cotrell and Leonard literature and to enlist support among Commencement participants. Such a group, made up of officials from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and student sympathizers, picketted Cornell's commencement ceremonies last week. And ILGWU officials have repeatedly warned the Harvard community that if anyone wears Cotrell and Leonard gowns during Commencement, the union will set up "informational picket lines...
While E was outside being persuaded to put the bat away, the "townie" tried to enlist the support of his fellow homophobic racists. He said it was not right to let a nigger beat up a white man. He said he could not believe that a room full of white people would stand by and let a Black man hit "one of us." One (and only one) white Harvard student had the guts to respond...
Despite Carter's weaknesses, Kennedy's are even greater. He has been unable to enlist broad support, the early weeks of his campaign were highlighted by poor planning and inept execution, and the public has refused to forgive him Chappaquiddick. Certainly Reagan, who has already won the support of 1.4 million primary voters, more than twice as many as Bush or Anderson, would hardly have been bypassed by party leaders in favor of either of those two foes under some alternative system. Without the primaries, in all probability, neither Bush nor Anderson would even have gained serious consideration...
...coping at least with the look of college dorms, which potential donors tend to see first, may be to enlist student support. In an experiment in "dormitory democracy," students at the University of Connecticut took over all the lighter maintenance in one older dorm: building walls, painting, waxing, replacing light bulbs. For six years the plan has kept costs down. And giving the students responsibility also has cut back significantly on vandalism...