Word: recruite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensive efforts of white colleges, particularly those in the Far West and the Northeast, to recruit more blacks began to pay off- for example, the number of black students attending New England colleges more than doubled between...
...during the merger negotiations. Obviously, the Radcliffe Institute can-and will-be kept. The Harvard and Radcliffe career planning offices should merge, and could without the loss of record-keeping for women. The effects of separate offices are much worse than a merged one could be. Large firms send recruiters to Harvard to find management trainees, highly skilled scientists, and other jobs requiring good minds and good educations. The same companies go to Radcliffe to recruit secretaries. If both sexes were under the same planning office, such discrimination would not be possible-companies might even be too embarrassed...
Dead Ends? A few companies have used Government training grants to subsidize their wage costs and have skimped on teaching. Others have used the program to recruit and hold unskilled labor in dead-end jobs. A California company, for example, contracted to give 322 hours of on-the-job training at a cost to the Government of $4,173 per man, but most of the jobs were so simple that it took only from two hours to two days to learn the routine. A Detroit manufacturer agreed to train machinists, but turned some of them into general laborers...
...Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...trial board that "criticism of Government policy may not be considered in and of itself disloyal" and the panel acquitted Priest of soliciting desertion and sedition. But the five officers found him guilty of "promoting disloyalty and disaffection." They ordered him demoted to the lowest naval rank, seaman recruit, and given a bad-conduct discharge...