Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public interest activist Ralph Nader brought his campaign for nuclear power safety to Harvard yesterday, criticizing the Harvard community for non-involvement in an effort to enlist support for his "scenario on how to defeat nuclear energy and open avenues to geothermal and solar energy...
...polar set-up on the NFL, CFL and the lesser WFL (Very similar to the U.S., Soviet Union, China big three line-up). Among these last three there has been a constant battle to recruit and sign-up college talent which closely resembles the scramble among superpowers to enlist lesser nations on their sides, often through devious alliances...
...told him that $200,000 of the gift should be made in cash. Vesco went on to depict the President and himself as victims of a vague political conspiracy and said that three prominent members of past Administrations had attempted six months before the Watergate break-in to enlist his help in bringing down Nixon. Cronkite failed to ask their names; indeed, the questioning was rather gentle. When Cronkite did ask pointedly if Vesco had ever personally discussed his gift or SEC problems with the President, Vesco allowed a pregnant pause and then feigned deafness...
...hastily subpoenaing presidential tapes and documents and basing its entire impeachment case on a contempt of Congress citation against Nixon for obstructing the impeachment inquiry if, as he has so far, he refuses to yield the evidence. Nixon apparently believes that such a charge would be too thin to enlist broad public support and that even if impeached by the House on that charge, he could muster the 34 votes necessary in a Senate trial to retain his office...
...just enlist...