Word: recruiting
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...occasion was a pilot demonstration of what the American Academy of General Practice calls Project MORE. The name, no acronym, reflects the academy's urge to recruit more premedical students and thus aid in the production of more doctors, especially G.P.s. Even sharper than the threat of an overall shortage of doctors in the U.S. is the growing scarcity of "family doctors," as more and more medical graduates go immediately into specialty training. The ratio of family doctors (including some specialists, notably internists, but mostly general practitioners) has dropped from one to 1,100 population...
...Waterfront. Given this kind of manpower, the Communists can divide their tasks with corporate efficiency. East Germany's MfS, for example, has its Main Department I, with 900 agents scattered through East Germany's armed forces to ensure the military's reliability; the agents recruit East German soldiers and sailors to spy on one another. Espionage in the West is the responsibility of Main Department II, with its basic staff of 800 in East Berlin to recruit and receive reports from thousands of agents it maintains in West Germany and other NATO countries. One subdivision, the Department...
Second, he says we cheat. We claim not to recruit, but do; claim not to practice, but do. I say, let him cite chapter and verse and back up that dirty crack with specific proof, or let him publicly retract what he said--and on the front page in large type. Over several centuries, Harvard has stood for one thing if for nothing else--integrity. I, for one, consider this sort of mud slinging to be inexcusable and unworthy of any representative of Harvard. I also think it marks the lowest ebb in my experiences in CRIMSON editorial responsibility...
...extra financial in centive. Are we so poor? No--Harvard gives more financial aid annually than any other college. We merely refuse to set the athlete on a special financial pedestal. To equate our normal search for talent of all sorts with the usual meaning of the word "recruit" is such a distortion of the truth that Lottman's use of the worse--or is he really that ignorant of the subject concerning which he does not hesitate to damn and dogmatise...
...involved why Ivy League football is so bad, and they will tell you they can't recruit (though they do anyway.) they can't practice in the spring (though they do anyway), and they don't get enough financial support (though the do anyway, to the almost total exclusion of all other fall sports...