Word: recruite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starting a company. Within days he persuaded a group headed by Insurance Executive John Burkhart, a wealthy DePauw alumnus whom he had never met, to put up $150,000. Burkhart also agreed to serve as board chairman. Vittert set up shop in a windowless cubicle, recruited five staff members and began searching for clients, traveling around the country on cut-rate "youth-fare" plane tickets. At first his selling efforts met only rebuffs; middle managers noted Vittert's youth, then his sockless ankles, and instantly turned him down. Undaunted, he finessed the cadres of "no" men by telephoning...
...also left its mark. Even in the elite schools, the fear of not finding a job this June runs high. Among seniors in liberal arts, this fear verges on panic. IBM, for example, plans to hire fewer than 50 humanities majors out of the 500 students it intends to recruit this year. Because of the general belt tightening in education, graduate students face similar bleak prospects. One future Harvard Ph.D. in English sent resumes to 108 colleges, was interviewed by only eleven, and received one offer?from the American University in Beirut...
Still, real Communist' strength remains the big question. Over the past two years, say pacification experts, the Viet Cong "infrastructure" has been whittled down from 128,000 active cadres to 62,000. Nevertheless, the Viet Cong are still able to collect taxes, recruit troops, and cut practically any road in the country, at least temporarily. Knowledgeable observers smile at on-ward-and-upward statistics rating the security of South Viet Nam's towns and hamlets. Solid assessments of enemy strength are made difficult because the Communists in North Viet Nam may be deliberately lying low. Directives have been intercepted ordering...
...alliance is trying to recruit a general secretary, who will be employed full-time. The funding for the group's activities will come initially from the unions, since, Wald said, "they are the only ones who right now are in a position to finance something as big as this." Subsequent funds are to come from annual dues paid by individual members...
Princeton has tried to recruit Canadians over the last few years in an effort to avoid the cellar, but it hasn't been too successful. Princeton hasn't had a winning season since big-time recruiting began...