Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid, but I disagreed with the firm's management on fundamentals." The departing stars made an 11 a.m. appointment with Buchanan in his 43rd-floor Manhattan office, where they cordially delivered their bombshell. Afterward, they scurried across the street to their lawyers' office to begin working the telephone to recruit an initial 30 employees, many of them from First Boston. Meanwhile, Buchanan promptly named a new pair of rising stars to take over the investment-banking department, James Maher, 38, and Richard Bott, 40. Says Buchanan: "Of course, it's disruptive to lose talented people. But Maher is as solid...
...just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit her to his scheme, he plunges ahead, basing his gamble less on business acumen than on a burbling belief in the benefits of universal home ownership...
Many organizations used more than posters to recruit new members. In the alcove between the main hall and Sanders Theatre, members of student organizations accosted their fellow students and tried to convince them to give up their free time for the sake of worthy or enjoyable causes. Recruiters for Paul Simon's presidential campaign even brought a television on which they displayed a video presentation...
Some officials are concerned that neo-Nazi types could take over the movement. In California there is little question that skinheads have ties with established racist groups. Tom Metzger, a former Klan leader who now heads the White Aryan Resistance, tries to recruit among skinheads. His son John Metzger teaches skinheads how to organize. Says the younger Metzger: "It's not a fad. It's a movement and a reaction against what's going on." Maybe. But more than anything else, the skinheads are a frightening, pathetic reminder that the U.S. has not solved its racial problems -- and that...
...prominent Providence insurance executive Thursday was acquitted of charges that he recruited two Brown University students to be prostitutes, engaged in illegal sexual acts with them, and also tried to recruit a student at another college as a prostitute...