Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, above all, must be a leader, able to direct a large, complex organization, or federation of organizations, and to deal with competing, often conflicting constituencies. He (or she) must be able to recognize talent, recruit it, deploy it, inspire it, oversee it (and fire people when necessary). A President must be a man of vision who knows in what direction he wants to guide the nation, a persuasive individual who can explain his means and ends in ways that will move people to support him. In private life, the people who have the jobs most nearly comparable...
Heavy Casualties. The combined Soviet-Cuban contingent has inflicted heavy casualties on the F.N.L.A. and UNITA forces, despite military support from Zaïre regulars and South African advisers. As a result, Portuguese businessmen are recruiting replacements from the large Portuguese community (400,000 people) in South Africa. That is not the only place where mercenaries are being sought. An ad in the Fresno, Calif., Bee last week advertised for "mercenaries, activities in Africa ... military background a must." The ad was placed by David Bufkin, 38, a crop duster and former G.I. who said he had been hired by "Portuguese...
Last summer, a graduate student in psychology, Joanne Martin, wanted to conduct some pilot experiments for her thesis on relative deprivation. Martin planned to recruit subjects from a summer school psychology class: in return for their participation, she says, she promised to help subjects prepare for their examinations...
...readers take his spoofs seriously. When Nachman wrote that because of the nostalgia craze a fictional "Ye Olde Nostalgia Shoppe" had been so successful that it was reduced to selling back issues of PEOPLE magazine, dozens of fans wrote in asking for the address. Another O'Neill-era recruit is the paper's Washington bureau chief James Weighert, whom Political Chronicler Theodore H. White calls "maybe the best columnist out of Washington today...
...resolution stated that full co-education is an important goal and "Columbia College should seek to recruit and admit women for the B.A. at the earliest opportunity...