Word: enlistment
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TIME keeps in constant touch with the academic world. Our writers and correspondents search out scholars in many fields, seek their thoughts and enlist their help with future ideas or stories already under way. Occasionally, some of us get a chance to go beyond weekly news concerns and discuss long-range issues and new ideas with academicians and other intellectuals. In May 1971 several Time Inc. editors, writers and correspondents were the beneficiaries of a thoughtful two-day colloquy at the University of Chicago; equally provocative was a series of informal meetings in the fall of 1972 with thinkers...
Even before the first word of testimony, many trials pass through a critical yet haphazard phase: the selection of jurors. In major cases prosecutors sometimes do enlist police or the FBI to check out potential jurors; defense attorneys occasionally commission their own investigations when their clients can foot the bill. But the final decision about a juror is usually based on a large dose of intuition-bolstered, when possible, by past experience...
Earlier this year, company and union leaders approached Treasury Secretary George Shultz, who is well known to them as a former arbitrator, to enlist his help in drafting a plan. Shultz put them in touch with officials of the Department of Justice, and a series of unpublicized meetings began. The plan that is emerging would not only make seniority transferable from one line of promotion to another but would also set up timetables for hiring and promoting specific numbers of nonwhite workers. It would also establish a system known as "redcircling" to ensure that no black worker who transferred into...
These fears were exaggerated; nevertheless, Sam Adams led a meeting of the patriots that decided to enlist the aid of the South End Mob of Boston and dump tea from three British cargo ships into Boston Harbor. "Many persons," an exultant John Adams wrote at the time, "wish that as many dead carcasses were floating in the harbor as there are chests of tea." The effect of the action, conclude historians Morrison and Commager, was to commit the patriots once and for all to the use of violent means against the British oppressors...
...ultimate aim of the committee is to enlist the support of all Americans in the Greek people's struggle to force out the dictatorship and to return to democratic government," Wald said yesterday...