Word: enlist
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George Bush's campaign to win hearts and minds overseas doesn't just involve high-level diplomacy and Administration officials pushing the U.S. message on TV abroad. The Pentagon is also trying to enlist foreign military officers in the spinning. Each year more than 2,000 foreign officers from more than 50 countries are students at Defense Department schools, such as the National Defense University in Washington, and regional security-studies centers the Pentagon operates in Hawaii and Germany. Hoping those mid-level officers will happily promote Washington's interests after taking classes in the U.S., the Pentagon...
...that end, Harvard, Yale, and company agree to abandon Division I football and enlist in Division III, as many pundits have long speculated they are eager to do. Amherst and Williams replace Lehigh and Northeastern on the Crimson’s schedule each year...
Madigan-Curtis got up earlier, at 7 a.m., in order to pack her bag and grab a few bananas, she says. Worried that she might oversleep, Madigan-Curtis decided to enlist some outside help...
...National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing that "our separate organizations . . . present a tragically divided church to a tragically divided world." The result was the Consultation on Church Union...
...ultimate goal is to provide the students of Harvard with yet another rousing way to take a break from work and have some fun, and maybe even find the love of his or her life and make many, many babies.” Perhaps the QEII should enlist her royal webmasters to create MajestyMatch.com, allowing young Dukes and Duchesses to find approved romance...