Word: enlistable
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...only will I not enlist, I may desert...
What motivates someone to enlist? A Mafia defector summed it up for TIME: "Money, power, recognition and respect." Most grew up in slums, where the neighborhood's most visibly successful men were connected with the Mob. Says Chicago Police Commander William Hanhardt: "The man with the big money and a fancy car is a man of prestige. It's something to aim for." There are practical benefits to membership: protection from competition, easy access to skilled lawyers and, if a Mafioso is jailed, financial support for his family...
Although there is no direct payment for recruiting other students, the managers earn commissions both from their own sales and from the sales of the students they enlist, Wilson said...
...politically difficult for leaders to accept or reject proposals in the face of domestic public opinion, and makes it hard for everyone, including the U.S., to back down or change course. Carter disagrees. He thinks that U.S. diplomacy has been too secret in the past, thereby often failing to enlist understanding and support from the U.S. public. Ventilating a difficult idea, he believes, can be healthy. Of his Middle East suggestion, one Washington official observes: "It gets the Israelis off some of their unrealistic notions about how far they can dig in their heels and gives them two months...
Fresh ideas, like a lot of things, are relative. Often an idea seems rather commonplace until you take a look at who it comes from, and where he or she said it. Like the idea to enlist women deacons for the Roman Catholic Church, which came from the Pope, not Daniel Berrigan. Or statehood for Puerto Rico, which could surpass Washington D.C. as a Democratic Party stronghold, which came, most recently, from then-President Ford...