Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gained new impetus and urgency because of the firefights on the Ussuri River border. Though the Soviets claim they have evacuated the disputed island in the Ussuri and have called for a negotiated settlement of the issue, the competition continues. The immediate aim of both sides is to recruit supporters for the world meeting of Communist parties, now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The long-range objective is to gain a strong foothold in the adversary's own backyard...
Although the next round of auto-industry contract negotiations is not scheduled until 1970, the U.A.W. chose its time and target skillfully. Under Chairman Henry Ford II, a leader in efforts to hire the hard-core unemployed, Ford has increasingly reached into the ghettos to recruit and train workers. Through this program, Ford has hired 7,700 of its present nationwide work force of 175,000. When production cutbacks brought the layoff of some 3,200 workers by the end of February, however, most of those affected were recently hired ghetto dwellers...
...immediate difficulty will still be a financial one. Radcliffe girls are on the average from much wealthier families than Harvard undergraduates, and Radcliffe scholarships are proportionately fewer and smaller. Last week the Harvard Office of Admissions and Scholarships asked a huge supplementary budget grant to finance a drive to recruit more students from poverty areas. The capacity of the Office to give 300 new female students the same kind o scholarship treatment it gives male undergraduates is open to serious question...
...trips represent the most intensive effort Radcliffe has made to recruit black students from the South. Previously student recruiters concentrated on recruiting in eastern and midwestern cities...
...student-Faculty committee at the Divinity School has released a report calling for extensive efforts to recruit black students and to improve the black curriculum. The school's black student group is planning to reject the report formally in a statement next Monday because they say the committee was not representative of the black students...