Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tufts is unbelievable, they practically recruit," senior skipper Tony Leggett said, "Most sailers who come to Harvard come to study. There are a couple of natural sailers, but most of us have to work...
...Excuse. Eaves launched his campaign with characteristic directness: he demoted more than 100 acting sergeants and other commanders and installed his own team, promoting more than 30 blacks. He also increased recruit training from six weeks to 19 weeks, and required all cops to take "crisis intervention" classes to learn how to deal with domestic squabbles. Most important, he began spreading what might be called Eaves' law through black high-crime areas: "No matter how poor you are, there is no excuse for knocking a lady in the head or stealing her purse...
Knight is able to get away with such drills, Harrison told Schoen, because he is able to go out and recruit the type of players he wants. Harvard coaches are shackled by Ivy League and school recruiting policies, and no one felt it more than Harrison...
...affirmative action in 1963, few programs to aid minorities and women have received as much negative scrutiny from such diverse sources. Only a few personnel managers employed by large government contractors grumbled when President Johnson signed executive order 11246 into practice. That order asked contractors to act affirmatively to recruit workers on a non-discriminatory basis. For most companies the order simply meant increased paperwork...
...liberal or conservative would, in this day and age, come forward in favor of outright discrimination. What troubles people like Bok is this business of going beyond simply eliminating discrimination. What gives rise to the "nightmare of affirmative action" is the idea of actually having to go out and recruit women or minorities for jobs not traditionally held by women or minorities. The requirements of affirmative action do not allow employers to claim that women or minorities might have been hired had they applied for the positions. It is the elimination of this classic excuse which has so many people...