Word: joining
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...father in 1949; Lloyd's son, George Bunting Jr., 44, has been president since 1973. The family still owns about 80% of Noxell's voting stock. The latest Bunting has three teen-age sons, but he says, "I don't know if any of them will join the business...
...Jordan's King Hussein tried to decide whether to risk negotiating with Israel and the U.S. The moment of opportunity passed, and with it the Reagan initiative. In time the Syrians and the P.L.O., backed by the Soviets, managed to scuttle King Hussein's efforts to join in the peace talks, and now seem bent on blocking the "pax Americana" in Lebanon as well. Due to the continued occupation, efforts to reconcile hostile factions within Lebanon have come to naught, and the country's internal stability is by no means assured. Some of the Lebanese militias, taking...
...pioneers in the profession have been out for a few years now, and their careers are reaching the critical point at which they will start to join the established, in-charge practitioners of the law. Who are these young women? How good are they? What has their experience been in the corridors of legal power...
...their tours in fiscal 1982 reupped, and the percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this or I want that or I don't join,' " says Field. "We tell 'em to hit the bricks. There's a lot of others beating the door down...
...astounding rate. The new kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take a man if he has a parking ticket outstanding," said Nashville Navy Recruiter Tony Thomas. Indeed, the services frown on would-be recruits who have not finished high school. In 1980, 68% of the enlistees had diplomas; today that figure...