Word: enlisting
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...When his draft notice arrived in late 1965, Kerrey jumped at the chance to enlist in Navy officer-training school, then signed up for something more exciting: underwater demolition. Kerrey relished the rigorous training and jumped again when he was selected for the secret counterinsurgent team called SEALs. He was eager to serve, he said, "with a knife in my teeth...
...increasingly militarized nature of drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments to join the war on drugs, so does...
...help find a cure for cancer. A collaborative effort by Oxford University, Intel and U.S. tech firm United Devices - billed as the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken - will harness the unused power of millions of PCs around the world to screen molecules for cancer-fighting potential. You can enlist your PC and download the necessary software at www.ud.com...
...political-action committees will be able to contribute, not corporations and unions. A couple will still be able to give $100,000 per election cycle to national party committees. Small donors become more important, so direct-mail operations will become even more aggressive, and the "bundlers" who can enlist 100 or so donors from their company or union will have even more clout. In place of the coffee for 20 donors who give $50,000 apiece will come the banquet for 500 donors who give $2,000 apiece. The hustle never stops...
This is the way student campaigns work best, Epps says, and recently, PSLM members have stepped up their efforts to enlist faculty members to their cause...