Word: recruited
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McCain would do to preserve Social Security for young, hardworking Americans. A veteran asked what McCain would do about veterans' benefits. Even the few questions that weren't strictly about the questioners were hardly unrelated - a teacher asked what McCain would do to bring technology into schools, a military recruit asked what McCain expected to happen to the military, and a conservative asked if McCain could reassure conservatives. McCain's slogan is "Country First," but his audience was all about Me First...
...There's another crucial benefit that accrues to businesses that do good work. They will find it easier to recruit and retain great employees. Young people today - all over the world - want to work for organizations that they can feel good about. Show them that a company is applying its expertise to help the poorest, and they will repay that commitment with their own dedication...
...managed to carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that it carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan in 2007. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost its chances of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Western nations must pressure and help the Pakistani government to crack down on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, its identical twin. Iftikhar Qureshi, SYDNEY
...hunch is that this is a media-driven operation," says Nicholas Bequelin, chief China researcher for Human Rights Watch, based in New York City. "The goal is to help it to recruit people to the cause or attract attention" at a time when the eyes of the world are focused on China, he says, adding, "I don't think they seriously are claiming responsibility." Says terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna: "The threat is to change the mood rather than to mount an attack in the Olympic venue. However, attacks elsewhere, small to medium, are likely in the lead-up and during...
...Bahri ultimately managed to recruit 35 men, mostly Yemenis like Hamdan, but they were stopped in Afghanistan before they could make it to Tajikistan. The ensuing days would change Hamdan's life forever. At loose ends and casting about for a cause, one of the jihadis suggested that they go see a man named Osama bin Laden. Hamdan's group arrived at bin Laden's camp in the caves of Tora Bora only days before Ramadan, Islam's holiest time of the year. For three days they listened to bin Laden preach about the religious imperative of reversing America...