Word: enlistable
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When the Union trying to enlist clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area lost its first bout with Harvard in June 1977, organizers vowed to return within a year...
...pages to type into her files that day, pages she wanted to cut and edit and perfect, but she was running out of time. The chances of being able to print anything out that day dimmed, and Heather had a vision that she would have to enlist every friend she had on Wednesday night to type the entire thesis because the printer was exhausted. She swore she'd tell every junior she knew never, never to try to type a thesis onto the computer; it was worth it to pay a typist...
With the official negotiations apparently bogged down, mediation efforts got under way behind the scenes to avert an explosive showdown. Jaruzelski met with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, to enlist his help. Church officials and intellectuals reportedly proposed a compromise plan: to turn over the Bydgoszcz investigation to a special parliamentary committee and to grant the farmers a "chamber of agriculture" rather than a union. The remaining demands would be shelved until the crisis passed. The party leadership reportedly rejected the proposal...
...Commons seats, the Social Democrats already have a presence in Parliament, where they rank as the third largest group, ahead of the Liberals (eleven seats) though far behind the Conservatives (337 seats) and Labor (255). At the party's seven-room London headquarters, plans are being pressed to enlist the aid of the "millions of people" who Owen believes will back the Social Democrats. A team of 25 volunteers were answering 30,000 letters from prospective party members. The total contributions to date...
Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey, were they here today, might be nonplused at seeing their old nemesis Reagan carrying this banner, though the chances are they would enlist. It was not really a political affair about which Reagan talked on his Inaugural Day. It was, rather, about the circulatory system of liberty, with Government as the heart that nourishes and protects the body by both its actions and its self-restraints. Regenerating sympathetic and helpful Government and spreading public understanding of the partnership may be the essence of the American renewal that is the task Reagan has set for himself...