Word: enlists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Union trying to enlist clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area lost its first bout with Harvard in June 1977, organizers vowed to return within a year...
With the official negotiations apparently bogged down, mediation efforts got under way behind the scenes to avert an explosive showdown. Jaruzelski met with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, to enlist his help. Church officials and intellectuals reportedly proposed a compromise plan: to turn over the Bydgoszcz investigation to a special parliamentary committee and to grant the farmers a "chamber of agriculture" rather than a union. The remaining demands would be shelved until the crisis passed. The party leadership reportedly rejected the proposal...
...Commons seats, the Social Democrats already have a presence in Parliament, where they rank as the third largest group, ahead of the Liberals (eleven seats) though far behind the Conservatives (337 seats) and Labor (255). At the party's seven-room London headquarters, plans are being pressed to enlist the aid of the "millions of people" who Owen believes will back the Social Democrats. A team of 25 volunteers were answering 30,000 letters from prospective party members. The total contributions to date...
Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey, were they here today, might be nonplused at seeing their old nemesis Reagan carrying this banner, though the chances are they would enlist. It was not really a political affair about which Reagan talked on his Inaugural Day. It was, rather, about the circulatory system of liberty, with Government as the heart that nourishes and protects the body by both its actions and its self-restraints. Regenerating sympathetic and helpful Government and spreading public understanding of the partnership may be the essence of the American renewal that is the task Reagan has set for himself...
America has a long tradition of mixing religion and politics, from abolition to Prohibition, and up through current at tempts by both Carter and Reagan to enlist religious support. Indeed, all the groups attacking Falwell insist that they support the right of his "Moral Majority" or Christian Voice to apply religious values in the arena of public action. Many of them have avidly supported such hot political causes as the fights against segregation and nuclear power. The problem, they say, lies in the methods used by the religious right, especially widespread lists of the supposed Christian positions, and attacks...