Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morale is generally approved, but not all sailors welcome what the Zumwalt mood has done to discipline. Some senior petty officers at the Great Lakes Naval Recruit Training Center near Chicago grouse that enlisted personnel do not always stand when an officer enters a room, and that recruits in uniform smoke on the street. Officers hesitate to enforce rules because the new sailers could and perhaps would demand a lengthy explanation before following the orders. Complains Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Chambers in San Diego: "You can't tell a kid to square away his uniform any longer...
After explaining the general admissions policy at the Medical School, Fant said that students help the admissions office recruit minorities in the field...
Among the Feds' other sources of information is a Florida shipper who tried to recruit an undercover FBI agent to assassinate a competitor. Holding a homicide charge over the shipper's head, the Feds forced him to divulge details about huge bribes, totaling upward of $5 million a year, paid by shipping companies to union officials to buy labor peace. The FBI also infiltrated waterfront racketeers in New York at such a level that one undercover man became a courier for payoffs from shipping companies to the union. Justice Department lawyers expect to obtain indictments against both union...
There should be no debate. The challenge for minority students is to engage in rational dialogue to clarify that recruitment from oppressed groups serves the University's interest (or that failure to recruit will eventually be detrimental). More important, minority students must thoroughly understand the environment of the University and act on issues of concern in a calculated manner, from a strong base of support within and outside the University...
...called '60s kids clearly constitute a group apart, markedly different from the gang that graduated in the 1950s and early 1960s, who celebrated football, proms and exclusive fraternities, and somewhat different from the more conventional, career-directed students of today. Yet it was not difficult for corporations to recruit the '60s kids. As products of the postwar baby boom, they faced stiff competition for places in law and medical schools. And as they became breadwinners, they gained more respect for the financial and psychic payoffs offered in the corporate world...