Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign's director, Assistant Dean for Public and Community Affairs Jay A. Winsten, worked with the Center for Health Communication to enlist the support of 13 Hollywood television studios. These studios, which include Columbia Pictures Television, Walt Disney Studios, and Paramount Pictures Television, will encourage their writers to create dialogue suggesting that drivers should not drink...
Iran requested the council meeting to seek condemnation of the U.S. action and demand withdrawal of all American forces from the Persian Gulf, but has been unable to enlist a majority to support a resolution...
Should Carlucci try to cancel some major weapons systems, he would have no guarantee of succeeding. Generals and admirals have become adept at making end runs around their own civilian chiefs to enlist the support of sympathetic Congressmen. And for all their bellowing about vast sums of money wasted on weapons that do not work, few legislators will vote for military economies likely to hurt their own districts. One example: the Pentagon could save perhaps $2 billion a year by closing unneeded military bases, but Congress has not permitted a major base closing since...
...Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this dark, wet comedy...
...become spy vs. spy in a battle of the bookshelves. The FBI wants to enlist librarians to inform on Soviet nationals or other suspicious characters who check out technical books. No way, says the American Library Association, which calls the program "an unconscionable and unconstitutional invasion of the rights of library users." FBI Director William Sessions vows to continue his efforts: "We will go wherever our intelligence takes...