Word: recruiter
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...post-war years were also ones of growth for Harvard. "The public from the end of the war on [was] very high on higher education," he says. It was then that Harvard began to recruit faculty extensively from abroad, internationalizing the University...
Suppose he was standing beside the town's lone rail track and saw a train coming from the north at 80 m.p.h. and on the same track another train roaring toward him from the south at equal speed. What would he do? The recruit, said Johnson, thought a few seconds, then brightened and responded, "I'd run home and get my brother." The recruiter had never heard that answer, and asked what for. Said the young man: "My brother's never seen a train wreck...
...attendees were selected from among some 50,000 evangelists. Global sweep was one of Graham's goals, and it was attained: 185 nations and territories were represented; 80% of the preachers came from developing countries. In Nigeria, for example, organizers had tried to recruit at least one evangelist from each of that huge (pop. 105 million) nation's 137 major tribes, but in the end were able to cover only 136. Said one Graham organizer: "We looked hard for an evangelist from the last tribe, but we just couldn't find one." The throng included members of every sort...
...said he is "repulsed" by the world of politics and its "dirty tricks" and has often stated his resolve against seeking elective office. Nevertheless, this modern American folk hero has found himself in the frustrating, if flattering position of having to implore his admirers to quit trying to recruit him for the 1988 presidential race...
Miller was the first agent ever charged with espionage and the latest in a string of Government employees convicted of selling secrets. To U.S. Attorney Robert C. Bonner, the case "demonstrated graphically the KGB's effort to recruit Americans" as spies. Half the Soviet diplomatic officials in the U.S. are intelligence officers, Bonner said. At week's end the FBI supported that contention by apprehending Colonel Vladimir Izmaylov, the Soviet air attache in Washington. He had approached a U.S. Air Force officer and allegedly offered to pay for information about the Strategic Defense Initiative and other weapons projects...