Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...feared that it might push Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point program into the background. Other C.P.I, bigwigs urged their party to join the other opposition parties and end its ambiguous policy of "running with the hares and hunting with the hounds." But a hastily organized Communist campaign to enlist popular support by protesting rising prices never got off the ground, and some 100 Communist organizers were arrested for agitating...
Odell's involvement with the CIA began after he graduated from Queen's College in Canada in 1951. An American citizen, he joined the United States Army and entered the officer training program. He was contacted by CIA recruiters when he joined the army, but his decision to enlist didn't end the agency's interest in him. "Once they have their claws in you, they never let go," he says. After quitting the army in disgust over the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Odell applied to the Harvard Business School. He was accepted and on the verge of entering...