Word: enlisting
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...grow in size, however, they need to change. Pristine sanctuaries without human interference are simply impossible - endangered animals and people need to learn to live with one other. In the Hukawng Valley reserve, which would eventually grow to an area the size of Vermont, that meant Rabinowitz needed to enlist the help of local people. Over years of meetings, he managed to convince many of them to stop hunting tigers and the wild game that is the animals' main source of food. At the same time, Rabinowitz didn't stand in the way of some economic development in the valley...
...fact that there are other people in the world, lost in their own preoccupations, benignly indifferent to the issues absorbing Juno, absorbing us. It is a smart reminder that the story any fiction relates is arbitrarily chosen and dependent for its effect on the ability of its tellers to enlist our interest - no special pleading, no emotional cheap shots permitted...
...eg’s plot, nor his characters, nor even his style have enough strength to carry this through.The main protagonist, world-renowned circus clown Kasper, is blessed with incredible hearing verging on telepathy—and also cursed with incredible tax debt. Mysterious and powerful nuns enlist his help in guarding twelve particularly gifted children in exchange for international immunity. After one of them, the eponymous KlaraMaria, is kidnapped, Kasper sets out on a quest to find her, which involves a lot of driving around at night in Copenhagen and a lot of brandy. Confused yet? There?...
...Armenians in 1915 a genocide. And then there are the mounting fears of a Turkish incursion into Iraq to stop cross-border raids into southeastern Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which is listed by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. But what better moment to enlist U.S. help against the PKK than when Washington's fears of a damaging rift with Ankara are at their height...
...does it makes sense for the Corps to take such a stiff stand on an aesthetic issue at a time when the nation is at war and it's already tough enough to persuade young people to enlist in the military? Marine officials claim the new policy isn't hurting recruitment. But it is telling that last year the Army relaxed a similar tattoo policy to help bolster its numbers. There are no statistics indicating what effect the bans have had on law-enforcement hiring, but there is evidence that cops aren't happy. A few months ago, the police...