Word: recruiting
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...generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability. Let's make college more affordable, and let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America...
Thankfully, the group remains relatively small, although they have stepped up their efforts at recruiting on college campuses. My fear is not that the LaRouchians will successfully recruit Harvard students into their cult, but that they will continue to be a constant blight on our campus—supposedly a place of rational discourse. My fury, as they thrust their nonsensical pamphlets into my book-laden arms, stems from the fact that their behavior pollutes the image of every reasonable and conscientious anti-war activist...
...last to insist that the group remain operative before it formally disbanded in 1998. In July 1977 - 14 months after Meinhof hanged herself in prison and three months after Baader and two other confederates were convicted of murder in a controversial trial - Mohnhaupt and Klar accompanied a young RAF recruit named Susanne Albrecht as she brought a bouquet of flowers to the villa of her godfather, Dresdner Bank chairman Jürgen Ponto. When Ponto turned to pick up a vase, Klar and Mohnhaupt both opened fire, killing him. Two months later, in an attempt to spring their jailed comrades...
Although Arenas played high school ball in Los Angeles, backyard power UCLA didn't recruit him. So he dashed to the desert--the University of Arizona--where he took the number 0--in his mind, the number of minutes his doubters thought he would play as a freshman. After helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have...
...injury sustained while practicing over reading period ended Kinner’s season before it started, keeping the recruit off the slopes until next winter...