Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensive efforts of white colleges, particularly those in the Far West and the Northeast, to recruit more blacks began to pay off-for example, the number of black students attending New England colleges more than doubled between...
...Harvard team's arrival there was in many ways the same as that of the recently departed British colonizers: undemocratic, elitist, institutionally repressive. In order to revive their stagnating economy, the Pakistani leaders had commissioned the Harvard group to shape up a five-year development plan and recruit an entire native planning staff; but the main impact of the team during this period was to facilitate the entrance of American aid into the country. This aid, part of a pact with the Pakistanis which John Foster Dulles had conceived in 1953 as an anti-Russian coalition, had the effect...
...woebegone history of most third-party movements in the U.S., the leftward alignments of Buckley's two opponents offer him a rare chance to recruit support from both Republican and Democratic conservatives. Incumbent Senator Charles Goodell was a moderate-conservative upstate Congressman when Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to the Senate after Robert Kennedy's assassination...
...effort to pry open the closed doors, the Nixon Administration last year sponsored a plan that would force contractors bidding on big federal projects to recruit blacks. After consulting contractors, union chiefs and black leaders in a city, Labor Department officials would determine the number of jobs to be made available in each building trade. The plan was first tried in Philadelphia, where contractors were supposed to raise the number of blacks among new workers from about 5% to 25% by 1975. Today this controversial "Philadelphia Plan" is riddled with problems...
Army basic training has traditionally been a cross between a prolonged fraternity hazing and a trip through bedlam -eight weeks of abuse and instruction aimed at preparing the recruit for the even worse ordeal of war. Now the system may be changing. Convinced that men can be trained to fight for positive motivation rather than fear. Army brass at Fort Ord, Calif., are experimenting with a basic reform in basic training that could greatly change the armed forces and mark the end of the Sergeant Snorkel drill instructor...