Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first event--the 200 medley relay--the Crimson quartet of Sheila Findley, Mia Costello, Mary Quinn and Linda Suhs set a new Harvard, pool and Eastern record with its winning time...
Ironically, the last league setback for the Crimson came two year ago in the same Sheerr Pool, when an upset-minded Quaker team stunned Harvard in a similar situation, right before Easterns...
Some see it as a way of filling the ranks of the military at a time when the pool of new 18-year-olds is shrinking. Others regard it primarily as a way to foster a work ethic while meeting the nation's domestic needs: restoring parks, cleaning up inner cities, repairing roads, caring for the elderly, tutoring children. Proponents of the idea still disagree as to what extent the program should be mandatory or voluntary. Yet there is growing talk these days among politicians of various stripes about instituting in the U.S. some form of national service, a program...
...know where we'd be without the extensive marketing effort we've given to recruiting for the past five or six years." Says Douglas Thompson, dean of admissions at wealthy, selective Hamilton College in upstate New York: "There is a race on. There is a limited pool of students, and we are all competing for and trying to convince them we are the best place to come...
...Federal Government will have to pay more to maintain its volunteer military. The pool of eligible recruits for the armed forces will shrink from 9.5 million people in 1986 to 7.8 million by 1996. The Pentagon nevertheless expects to meet its recruitment goals, but the competition with private industry will be intense for entry-level jobholders. As the supply of younger workers declines, civilian and military employers will be forced to offer . education and training to make better use of potential recruits. By 1990, predicts the National Alliance of Business, three out of every four jobs will require education...