Word: recruit
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...lawless insurgents, both foreign and Iraqi, that the authorities must deal with. Why doesn't the U.S. just get out of the way? If we keep calling the conflict a war, the insurgents may gain strength by naming it "the American war." They will use that label to recruit Iraqis who hate...
...report also recommended that schools do more to recruit undergraduates to the study of engineering and encourage them to continue their studies into graduate school...
...basij are on a roll right now, having organized the get-out-the-vote effort that propelled hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a landslide victory in last month's presidential election. The militia, whose name means mobilization in Persian, was created by Ayatullah Khomeini in the 1980s to recruit young men to fight against Iraq. But a decade later, they took on the role of an official morality police, becoming better known for raiding parties than for raiding the Iraqi front line. June's election, however, marked the first use of the basij as a mobilizing tool in electoral politics...
...negligent in running an ad that her son-in-law had used to hire a hit man to kill her daughter. Upcoming Cases: One revolves around whether Congress can withhold funding from universities that claim they have a First Amendment right to make it hard for the military to recruit on campus because they view its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy as discriminatory...
...They were not looking for Nobel Prize winners. Although Graham wasn’t able to recruit very many Nobel Prize Winners, there wasn’t actually that much demand for super brainiacs. The women wanted to know the heights of the donors, if they had musical abilities, and their family health history. Brains were only one of the characteristics they valued. Although he was forced to recruit other donors because of a lack of supply, Graham was a businessman and quickly realized that having other kinds of donors was a good marketing move. The biggest attraction...