Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruit subjects for their experiment, University of Wisconsin Psychologists Rick Heber and Howard Garber went to a slum, which typically is the section of any city with the highest concentration of the mentally retarded. Initial testing showed that retarded mothers are likely to have retarded children, but did not reveal the reason. Heber and Garber suspected that it was the way in which the retarded mothers dealt with their children that made the critical difference between them and the children of equally impoverished mothers of normal intelligence...
...National Committee to Elect Charles Evers, which was based in New York, tried to recruit teams of northern organizers to train local coordinators. This plan failed dismally. Most of the northerners who went to Mississippi went with the main idea of improving their own standing in their home communities. Consequently a number of liberal politicians came for a minimal period of time--usually must as long as it took to be photographed with Mayor Evers...
Army's coach, Jack Riley, was the Olympic coach in 1960, the year Harvard's Cleary brothers led the Americans over the Russians. Hockey has been downhill ever since for Riley, who is in his 22nd season. Army obviously does not go into the Canadian woods to recruit hockey players, and Riley has been forced to create teams out of lesser Massachusetts and Connecticut high school players...
...toughest students to recruit," she says, "were the ones who don't like to learn the game because it would be losing a challenge point to their husbands. You know, she can say 'Well, you watched the games all day Sunday, so I have a right to go out.' " Her proudest catch is a rather sheepish football widower, a balding businessman who enrolled because: "In my business there are men who constantly talk about the week's games, and 1 felt ignorant because I couldn't say anything...
Because the FBI informer is considered a permanent feature of political life by the target groups, organizers have developed some reticence about trusting every new recruit in their ranks. The informer must win their trust: usually he attempts this by adopting a more militant line than the rest of the rank and file. By showing great political zeal and uncompromising devotion to the cause, he hopes to be recognized as one of the initiate and moved into a position of trust...