Word: recruiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon will have to use still more women, which it is already planning to do. Even now, it is easier to recruit educated and capable women than similarly qualified men. Studies show, for example, that females like the military's work environment, the security and the opportunity to develop skills, as well as the excitement and the chance to serve the nation. Explains Bambi Hunter, 23, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base: "I wanted to get away from my small home town and didn't want to go to college." For Lance Corporal Genest, joining the Marines...
...fact, the Pentagon now finds that it can recruit what it regards as high-quality females for about the same price as low-quality males. While it costs the Army about $3,700, the Marines $2,050, the Navy $1,950 and the Air Force $870 in advertising and other expenses to sign up a male secondary-school graduate who scores high on aptitude tests, the cost to all four services for an equally qualified woman is only $150. By 1982, the Pentagon estimates, the recruitment of more women will enable it to maintain its standards of quality and still...
...plot also leads him into a very dark passage when the young woman (Susan Anspach) who helped recruit him for the job-and who was his once and, he hoped, future lover-is murdered because she is a witness to a key kidnaping. But the emotion this event releases in Moses gives the film an honest weight that is not burdensome or pretentious. At this midpoint, the production becomes serious without turning sober and without slackening its strong pace...
...upon closer examination, one finds it was not even simply a matter of "make your money and keep quiet" for Charlie Engelhard. More than any other American, Charles Engelhard gave direct political support to the Nationalist government. Engelhard sat on the boards of Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and Native Recruiting Agency, two South African government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines...
...part of the Harvard admissions office and faculty. "I think Harvard is choosing to have upper income blacks because it makes it easier for Harvard," he says, adding that the Harvard admissions office is "extremely lazy" and looks only at superficial aspects of applicants rather than aggressively trying to recruit...