Word: enlistments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frenkil's sleight of hand is not confined to parlor tricks. As contractor for the House of Representatives' underground garage, completed in 1967, he has been trying for the past four years to parlay an $11.8 million contract into a $16.8 million windfall. He has managed to enlist the aid of some powerful political assistants...
...Liberals and conservatives differed heatedly over such questions as aid to the working poor and the concept of a guaranteed income. Nixon found the squabbling unseemly. He put John Ehrlichman, the top domestic policy sergeant in his palace guard, in charge of finding a compromise, and told Ehrlichman to enlist George Shultz...
...graduates-largely of the 1920's and 1930's-which have made my administration possible have in considerable measure now discharged their responsibility-especially perhaps those of the twenties of which I am a part. In any case the time has come for a renewed effort which will enlist the energies of many younger Harvard...
Recently, as you will notice in the Boston subway cars, there has been an effort to enlist war veterans in the Guard for one year. The reasoning is that these men can best provide instruction for the Guard's men in the use of their weapons. But these men will also harbor a severe hostility toward war protestors and flag burning demonstrators. That bias will be part of their instruction also. It will contribute, more than anything the Vice-President says, to heating up the tempers in the streets this summer. What can result is not predictable...
...GATES Commission was very careful ??mine all the present objections to an all-volunteer army. One criticism is that an all-volunteer military would consist largely of the poor and the black the commission pointed out that even at present lattes of pay, these groups are already motivated to enlist in disproportionate numbers and that an army paying salaries comparable to those in civilian life would, in fact, attract somewhat more well-to-individuals who have less trouble now getting job in the civilian market. The commission estimated that the percentage of blacks in an all-volunteer army, although greater...