Word: recruiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison, in Erving Goffman's terminology, is a "total institution," like a nunnery or a boot camp or a mental hospital. The bargaining power of prisoners looks pretty small. They cannot recruit help from outside, communications are restricted, and they have no alumni association that looks out for them. There's not much they can withhold from the institution; much of their work is "make-work." They even have poor opportunities for violence because so much of the time they are locked up. But once in awhile they start some...
Once he decided to found a new magazine, Manshell's first move was to recruit his old roommate as co-editor. Huntington, who by that time had come to feel that the U.S. military presence in Vietnam must be ended somehow, although he did not agree with Manshell's dovishness, consented. Although he was firmly entrenched in the foreign policy establishment, Huntington was uneasy with Foreign Affairs. "No journal can escape its origins and its history," he said recently. "A new journal is in a better position to meet the needs of the '70's." As Huntington sees...
...against all systems." Barnaby said when asked what was the key to his success. "In order to make a system work, you have to be able to recruit the players who are right for it, but here at Harvard we work with what...
Their first demand asked that the university recruit and admit 500 black students among next fall's 2800 freshmen. Less than 200 of the university's 20,000 students are black...
...realistic to expect combat soldiers to make moral choices? Every recruit learns the Army's basic rule: instant obedience, a lifesaver in battle. Under military law, in fact, a man who refuses to follow an order is deemed guilty of that offense until he proves the order was illegal at his subsequent court-martial. The defense rarely succeeds. Disobedience in combat is even riskier: more than one soldier who has defied an order in battle has been executed on the spot, although this practice is not authorized by the military code...