Word: recruiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy that depends less on delegate totals than on persuading the party that the President cannot win in November. Kennedy aides are counting first on big primary victories in urban states like California, New Jersey and Ohio. At the same time, they are making a concerted effort to recruit delegates nominally committed to Carter, arguing that the Administration's economic and foreign policy blunders are fatally weakening him as a candidate. The Kennedy strategists believe that by convention time they will pick up enough support to force a change in the rules so that wavering Carter delegates will...
...committee, formed in September by Dean Rosovsky to recruit senior faculty for Afro-Am, or originally was looking solely for historians, and in April recommended positions for three, including Nathan I. Huggins, a professor of history at Columbia University. Only Huggins accepted, and he will become chairman of the department on July...
...California I attempted to recruit one woman, Sherry Stevens, who was ideal as a plant. She was flashily good-looking, young, had secretarial skills and experience, and appeared able to attract men sexually if she wished. At dinner Miss Stevens seemed reluctant, and when I told her that her identity would be revealed to no one, she pointed out that I would know her identity. I told her that no one could force me to disclose anything I chose not to reveal. She didn't believe me. I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold...
Until two years ago, Crimson coaches were allowed to recruit only by letter, by phone or on campus. Alumni nationwide, of course, used their power of persuasion. The lure of the name Harvard still attracted a wealth of Jack Armstrongs. Crimson squads flourished; superior coaching proved edge in several sports...
...practical necessity to recruit seems extraordinary. After all, the admissions committee, Reardon and Bok, express strong pragmatic and philosophic reservations. So at the root of the matter is the importance of winning--or at least, staying competitive. Obviously, Harvard has made a decision to grapple with the has made a decision to grapple with the complexities and problems associated with recruiting, rather than risk slipping further down the Ivy athletic ladder...