Word: recruiting
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Affirmative action requires the contractor to do more than ensure employment neutrality with regard to race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. As the phrase implies, affirmative action requires the employer to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer. The premise of the affirmative action concept of the executive order is that unless positive action is undertaken to overcome the effects of systematic institutional forms of exclusion and discrimination, a benign neutrality in employment practices will...
...late 1950s, at the CIA's request, Robert Maheu, a former top aide to Billionaire Howard Hughes, supplied King Hussein of Jordan and other foreign leaders with female companions. Maheu was also the go-between the CIA used to recruit two high-ranking Mafia members in an attempt to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...
Antic Hell. Imagine the two codgers' surprise when Joan of Arc (Nancy Snyder) arrives in blazing armor with sword and pennant at the ready. She tells them that her mission is to recruit two of every species, including them, for a spaceship trip to heaven. After that, all antic hell breaks loose. Instant magic occurs: appearances and disappearances, deaths, resurrections, changes of identity, autokinetic kitchen utensils and finally Joan's celestial levitation. Director Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games...
...acknowledged U.S. effort to support the F.N.L.A.-UNITA alliance, by contrast, has amounted to $32 million, piped mostly through Zaïre. Washington insists that it has absolutely no sanctioned plans to train or recruit Americans or foreigners for service in Angola, despite published rumors to the contrary. In fact, American military men have been seen piloting cargo planes and acting as so-called "observers" in Angola, but their official status could not be determined. The Pentagon insists that if Americans are fighting in Angola, they are mercenaries on their...
Although Bill Emper became a household name in Nether Providence, colleges did not recruit him heavily. Neither a class rank of six nor interception records attracted the big schools to the little cornerback. "Only one school that could give scholarships approached me," he says. "I guess they thought I was too small...