Word: recruite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruit then takes three more two-hour "lessons," pays a modest fee ($75 generally, but only $45 for college students) and he is ready to reap the full benefits of transcendental meditation. Simply expressed, the goal of TM, which despite its Oriental trappings is not a religion but a quite secular relaxation technique, is to enjoy life more, to shuck tension by letting the mind travel far from mundane concerns a couple of times a day. To TM preachers, the practitioner is "expanding his awareness," developing his "creative intelligence," experiencing "subtler states of thought," and achieving "deep rest...
...want to fly charters must belong to a club, a union or some other "affinity group." All that a traveler now has to do is sign up for a trip with a travel agent at least three months before departure and plunk down a 25% deposit. Agents must recruit a minimum of 40 people for each trip; all members of the group must fly both ways together and stay away at least seven days on charters in North America and ten days elsewhere. If a traveler changes his mind before takeoff and decides to scratch the trip, the new rules...
...make a deliberate effort to recruit around the country to get people who are qualified but unaware of Harvard into the pool," he explained. "But the admissions process takes no account of this recruiting...
...taken an innovative stance in his position as director. "My goal is to keep doing what we've been doing but to do it better," he said last week. "The principal thing that I have done in one year is to recruit new people, for example Doris Kearns whom I put in charge of the fellows program...
Surprisingly enough, the Institute has not appealed to the women in the University. Although the undergraduate ratio is 4-1, less than 10 per cent of the seminar students were women. There are also only three women on the SAC despite an active effort to recruit more...