Word: recruiting
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Davis has claimed his intention in attacking black students performance was to enhance the Medical School's sense of responsibility to produce competent physicians. The way to fulfill this responsibility is to intensify efforts to recruit good students rather than making minority students a scapegoat...
...title of "coordinator and animator" of the presidential majority parties in the Assembly. Because "Bulldozer" Chirac, 43, is a committed Gaullist, his new job was a signal that Giscard now sees more need to regain the conservative voters he has scared off than to continue to try to recruit new strength from the left. France's recovery from its bout with recession and inflation-down from a rate of 15% two years ago to just under 10% today-may help limit the erosion of Giscard's support. But he faces a difficult long-term task in persuading France...
Hiring two for the price of one has some advantages for employers. They can more easily meet affirmative action requirements and recruit from a broad, relatively untapped labor pool. Part-time workers are so zealous, according to some studies, that they are almost certain to put in more than half a day's work in half a day's time. "Two teachers working half of the time bring additional energy and enthusiasm to the classroom," says Nick Gervase, personnel chief for the Santa Clara Unified School District in California...
...Society (whoever they are) is presenting a Soviet Film festival this spring and Ballad of a Soldier, tonight's offering, is a true masterpiece. If bourgeois sentimentality is your bag, and it is ours, then this is the film of a lifetime for you. A virginal 18 year old recruit in the Red Army, which is reeling from the German assault of 1941, is decorated for heroism at the front and granted a short leave home to visit his mother. This journey home, through the interior of war-torn Russia is complete with a love affair and an emotional reunion...
...President's medical advisers say the newly detected swine flu strain is similar to the lethal virus that caused some 20 million deaths worldwide during the 1918-19 global flu pandemic. The new strain showed up at Fort Dix, N.J., where a 19-year-old Army recruit died of flu-related pneumonia in February. Investigators also found direct evidence of swine flu in eleven other men and signs of exposure to the virus-determined by the presence in the blood of antibodies to the new strain-in 273 others. Yet a subsequent check of 50 men hospitalized...