Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Past recipients of the prestigious 19-year-old Stevens Lecturing honor include poets Robert Penn Warren and Adrienne Rich As this year's lecturer. Walcott is scheduled to recruit selections from his own works and to award poetry prizes to UConn students...
Ever since affirmative-action programs were first launched in the 1960s, the absence of significant numbers of blacks in managerial ranks has been a source of frustration and embarrassment to U.S. business. Many companies make strenuous efforts to recruit, hire and nurture black men and women. So too have blacks striven to meet the demands and pressures of corporate life. Yet there is a growing debate over how well business has done its job, how well blacks are doing their jobs, and how many invisible barriers keep blacks from important jobs that carry big responsibilities and big salaries...
...obscure to outsiders, but the uncertainty about Andropov underscores the current lack of American expertise on the Soviet Union. Even the Central Intelligence Agency admits that it is having trouble providing the kind of analysis needed by U.S. policymakers. Says a CIA spokesman: "It is becoming more difficult to recruit graduate students who have a real understanding of Soviet internal affairs." Notes Paul K. Cook, the top Kremlinologist at the State Department: "The number of well-trained senior Soviet specialists just suffices for the moment, but within five to ten years they will all be gone. The situation is severe...
...cross country season will find its place in Harvard athletic history as "that turn-around season." Regan believes. The Eliot House resident expects future recruit will build a "Harvard cross country dynasty over the next few years, which will generate yearly interest from prospectives through its own success...
...even Fasi chose to come to Cambridge thinking they would play polo here. Guerra says he didn't even know of the club team's existence when he was applying. And Fasi remembers that "out of six schools I applied to. Harvard was the only one that didn't recruit me for water polo." He wasn't planning to play here until he heard in May 1980 of the switch to varsity status...