Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When they launched separate attacks on Canada last year, General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold both carried messages addressing the Canadians as "brothers." Montgomery was authorized to recruit Canadian volunteers for the Continental Army, paying a bonus of 200 acres per man, plus 40 acres more for a wife and each child. Indeed, Congress only agreed to the invasion if, as General Philip Schuyler said, "it will not be disagreeable to the Canadians." The goal of all this friendliness was not just to forestall any British march down the Hudson but also to bring Canada onto the American side...
...Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...Senator Pete Domenici and Congressman Manuel Lujan Jr. But as state senator Leo Dow, who is Reagan's state chairman, sees it: "All they seemed to do was add more names for steering committees and take the whole thing for granted." Dow took the opposite approach. He began recruiting volunteers, including some who had been inactive since Barry Gold water's 1964 campaign and some who were new to politics. One such recruit: Ernie Leger, 46, an Albuquerque real estate salesman, gave up his job for four months to work as a full-time volunteer (15 hours...
...prosperity, peace and economic development for all. And they claim that only their innovative technological and organizational abilities can lead to this end. Barnet and Mueller refute the claim that multinationals (or "global corporations," as they prefer to call them, to emphasize the national limits within which they recruit their executives) are engines of development, by examining their impact on the economies of the Third World. Drawing on conventional leftist analyses of the causes of underdevelopment, Barnet and Mueller present convincing evidence to show that far from stimulating economic development in the Third World, global corporations perpetuate backwardness...
...their new problems therefore is how to attract white students. Complains Morehouse President Hugh Gloster: "In a country where foundations and corporations have provided millions of dollars to predominantly white colleges to recruit black students, I know of no black college that has received a large grant providing scholarship money to attract white students...