Word: recruited
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American bobsledders, on the other hand, are trying to recapture former glory. Until 1956 the U.S. dominated the sport, with 14 medals. But the Swiss and the East Germans have been masters of the 90-m.p.h., highly technical thrill ride in recent decades. The East Germans now recruit the cream of their summer sprinters for the event's crucial 50-meter running start. The U.S. has moved slowly to catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions...
...cost of the carpeted reviewing stand at Parris Island's Marine recruit depot could have provided mid-morning food supplements to 83,000 low-income children in child care centers...
...quite halfway into his seventh season, McLaughlin is on one of the biggest recruiting binges. With possibly the biggest weekend in the history of Harvard's men's basketball upon us, McLaughlin is eagerly pursuing the recruit he still hasn't got--the sixth man. The one in the stands...
...estimated 80% of 1,118 major Japanese companies will not hire any women graduates this year, according to a survey by Nippon Recruit Center, a private research and publishing firm. The women they hire will be coming straight from high school. Moreover, once employed, women face discrimination in, or outright exclusion from, most training programs and are rarely in a position to receive such benefits as transportation, housing and family allowances, which are available to heads of households. Except in a few jobs like nursing, they are also excluded by law from working between...
Japanese employers claim that most women leave their careers for marriage, but the Nippon Recruit Center's survey shows that among female college graduates, one in three wants to work until retirement and nearly half hope to return to work after childbearing. "It's a vicious circle," complains Yoko Kirino, 25, a graduate of Tokyo University's faculty of law who works for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. "Women want to quit because the circumstances aren't that great and they're under a lot of pressure from their husbands. Meanwhile, the fact that women...