Word: recruited
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However, he said efforts to recruit minority faculty members have been impeded by the small pool of minority PhDs: "In each faculty appointment we make, our aim must be to find the best available person anywhere in the world...
Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 1960--Four Black college students sit down at the lunch counter of a downtown Woolworth's and ask to be served. When the manager refuses, they inform him they'll stay. And they do, until closing time, when they return to their campus and recruit dozens more. The protest continues for a week, larger every day, as the Blacks and their white allies remain peaceful but assertive, and as local whites grow angry and violent...
South African officers, however, admit that they cannot continue to hold their own without the organized support of the local population. Accordingly, since last year they have assigned troopers to civilian duties, ranging from teaching to livestock breeding. And they have mounted a strong effort to recruit local cadre men for military and paramilitary operations. The aim: a Pretoria-controlled South West Africa Territory Force of seven "ethnic" battalions, each comprising 800 to 1,000 indigenous recruits. At least four such outfits already exist...
...promise that women and minorities would get a fair share of the policymaking jobs in his Administration. As of last Friday, 130 of the positions had been filled, one-third of the total, but only two of them by blacks, one being the personnel officer who is supposed to recruit nonwhites for high-level Administration jobs. In addition, only 15 of the posts went to women...
...told by one of the candidates while he was trying to recruit me that I was naive and unrealistic for holding this view. However, when I asked why I should go along with him, the only reason he could offer me was that be thought he was the best candidate and wanted to win--and that it was absolutely essential to keep control of the club out of the hands of the Eliot House faction. For the droves of Q-World people and the many Democrats (It's an even but that there were as many Democrats as Republicans...