Word: enlisting
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...those actors who's always self-consciously acting like an actor instead of behaving like a human being. He's like a kid afflicted by the terrible twos, who having behaved badly then scrunches up his face into a mask of adorability in order to enlist our forgiveness. The result is the opposite. He makes us tired. And he makes the movie unforgivably tiresome...
...build the county-by-county teams he'd need to compete in the early states. True, he has no shadow campaign lurking in the background and waiting to be deployed. But he could hire one, recruiting first-rate people from other campaigns as they fade; and he could enlist his vast army of grassroots followers as well as his Silicon Valley friends in a rainmaking operation mighty enough to compete against the fundraising prowess of Clinton and Barack Obama. So the logistics, though daunting, aren't what's keeping Gore...
With the novelty of burgers and fries on the wane, and health concerns of such food rising, fast-food chains have been searching for ever more inventive ways to attract new customers and keep revenues rising. Such was the motivation behind McDonald's' decision in 2006 to enlist Philippe Avanzi, one of France's leading interior designers, to develop a strategy to give 6,000-odd outlets across Europe a face-lift. Avanzi and McDonald's, in turn, engaged the services of one of the world's most highly regarded furniture producers, Fritz Hansen of Denmark, to supply chairs designed...
...member the committee, presented the committee’s forthcoming plan to enhance human rights-related course offerings. While undergraduates currently have the option of taking human rights courses in different departments and of applying for human rights related internships, Marks said that the committee will seek to enlist several departments to create a Harvard College Human Rights Fellowship Program for undergraduates. These fellows would be able to take intensive junior seminars taught by faculty members throughout the University and would ultimately go on to write senior theses on human rights issues. Citing the larger curricular reforms currently underway, Marks...
...commission moves the case forward, the preservationists will try to enlist the help of celebrity fans such as Johnny Depp, who is working on an animated film about the author. "So many people for so long have gone to the mat for Bukowski," says Schave. "If we do get a yes, then it will make it so much easier to do all the hard work that will still be in front...