Word: enlist
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...Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government...
...SLAM and HIPJ activists, three “informally affiliated” protestors entered the Gordon Track and Tennis Center—the site of the career forum—in plain clothes, but changed into superhero costumes once inside. Clad as superheroes, the students attempted to enlist in the armed forces to protest its ban on openly gay soldiers...
...particular photo, I rummage around until I?ve found it. If I want to back up my photos to another drive, I usually just copy the whole mess, or at least the stuff I know isn?t yet backed up. It?s clumsy. So I finally decided to enlist the organizational talents of a program I?ve relied on for many years for something else: photo editing...
...sure what they would even be petitioning against,” he said. Associate Director of the Athletics Department Jeremy Gibson was unavailable for comment. For Zaidi and Donovan, the “Save the MAC” website is only the first step. They plan to enlist the support of leaders of student groups—such as the Kendo Club and Harvard Boxing Club—which Zaidi said will be affected by the closing, and to administrators to begin consultation with students. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Director of Communications Robert Mitchell could not be reached...
...movie seems to want to say that violent crimes against women were-are-more common than we like to pretend, which is doubtless true, but essentially irrelevant to the case at hand. Worse, Johansson seems lost in the role. She's just not old enough or worldly enough to enlist our interest. She does, however, inhabit an apartment almost parodistically stuffed with art deco artifacts, enough of it to stir at least one collector-me-to paroxysms of awe and envy...