Word: enlisted
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...marriage with money as the daughter of a Budweiser distributor. While others have signed up for duty--the sons of Senator Kit Bond of Missouri and Tim Johnson of South Dakota have served combat missions in Iraq--it is nonetheless unusual for children with their background to enlist. By comparison, at least 32 congressional family members were found to be lobbyists, in a recent study by Public Citizen's Congress Watch...
...wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs empty spaces to roam and some quality alone with the audiences in order to enlist its complicity in its subversions...
...also may be a problem for the U.S. diplomatic efforts to enlist its Asian allies to help curtail North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Under Koizumi - who travels this week to the U.S., making stops both in Washington and at Graceland - Japan has taken a more muscular role in world affairs and sent troops to Iraq. The changes have been warmly welcomed in Washington, which has long wanted Japan to shoulder more responsibility for its own defense and become a more substantial counterweight to the regional ambitions of China and North Korea. The U.S. has been alone among the other nations...
...primarily responsible for helping to enlist the best legal minds to assist in preparing the amicus brief that was cited so extensively by the Supreme Court,” Bok wrote in an e-mail...
...military, but the masses simply kept going about their daily lives, going to the mall without a second thought about participation. The much-hyped youth vote never materialized in 2004. The war in Iraq provided another opportunity. But there was no draft, nor hundreds of Harvard students trying to enlist. We did not protest in large numbers. Rather there was a collective shrug...