Word: recruiting
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From the refugee camps, and from universities that are often staffed with zealous Palestinian professors, come a steady stream of several hundred recruits a month-more, in fact, than El Fatah can handle. It accepts Palestinians for the most part, and only those who pass rigorous medical tests and an examination by a team of psychiatrists. A recruit must also pass a final, brutal test of fortitude. He is handed a large box containing the body of a newly killed dog, still bleeding profusely. As the blood seeps out, he is told, "Inside this box is a wounded comrade. Take...
Detroit is trying to recruit more and better repairmen for its dealers. General Motors, for example, conducts free training courses for high school graduates and offers similar courses for men in the armed forces just before they are discharged. American Motors uses eight vans to take the training classrooms to the mechanics because, as a company officer says, "the mechanics won't come to us." And Detroit also has plans for a longer-term solution. Within the next two years, Ford, G.M., and American Motors all intend to bring out cars that will be smaller, cheaper, less complex...
Hasek's Schweyk was an Austro-Hungarian Imperial recruit whose very literal-minded obedience proves the bane of his superior officers. By the time of the Second War, Schweyk's position has become more complicated, and Brecht's hero has as more difficult task; a civilian now, he juggles the roles of partisan and seeming colla-borator. He still feeds his friends, still rattles military authority, still tries to stay alive, but there is somewhat less call on his innocence, somewhat more on his cunning. Brecht's Schweyk is already a conscious, canny resister. Nor does the progress end there...
...posts. Replies will be screened, then the information will be transcribed on tape for storage in Government computers. But Nixon Adviser John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota of 12% Negroes because that is the ratio of Negroes to the total population. That would be artificial...
...work real change requires two things, according to Goodwin. First, we must recruit leadership whose idealism is convincing. A sense of restored national purpose, as in the Kennedy years, would provide the impetus for broader control of industrial and technological growth. (Idealism will be scarce so long as American foreign policy is blundering and violent...