Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspects of the same problem. If your country is moving to a higher level of prosperity and the better life, then no one is going to listen to the rabble-rousers. But if you get more and more hungry and angry people, then Communists will find it easier to recruit people as guerrillas. If South Viet Nam is lost, the chances are that whoever forms the Communist government will want to be the successor of French Indo-China, which included Laos and Cambodia. Whether they will be able to go on and create a insurrection in Thailand is quite another...
...Currents. Well aware of the importance of South Viet Nam's intellectuals, the Viet Cong have long tried to recruit them-with some success. Many intellectuals have come to believe that the Viet Cong are nationalists first and Communists second, that they can be peacefully assimilated into the political fabric of the nation once the war ends. "When peace comes," says one naively optimistic Southerner, "South Viet Nam will be rich. We will have no problems, and when there are no problems, there will be no Communists." Other intellectuals, so far a minority, now back the government after years...
Corporate directors for years have understood that the success of their organization is predicated on executive efficiency. But it is obvious that a new factor has been added to the equation. To recruit and retain top-caliber people, business leaders must somehow modify the demands of the executive suite...
...hand, he learned at Berkeley that "a great big, impersonal university just doesn't make it;" on the other hand, people just can't be thrown together in the Houses, placed under charge of administrators and told to interact--that would be "cheap social engineering." The solution is to recruit Masters who are committed to the intellectual goals of the university and to the social goals of the Houses. Heimert no doubt sees himself as this kind of compound figure. But his whole disposition make him skittish about organizing other people's lives. "I don't plan...
When we compare the urban environment of Harvard with that of certain other large universities, we find cause neither for smugness nor despair. The precincts of the university, both in Boston and Cambridge, touch on the neighborhoods of the poor, both black and white. The Personnel Office seeks to recruit employees from a labor force that contains many persons who, owing to inadequate education, lack of skills, or a steady exposure to the barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. Within walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned...