Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while this line comes from the most recent of the Vietnam films, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick injects the line with an ironic twist which is indicative of the tone of the film. "I am living in a world of shit," one Vietnam recruit says, "But at least I am alive...
University to "actively recruit distinguishedwomen to its faculty" and to "maintain anextensive financial aid policy that will continueto attract a diverse student body...
Most firms recruit as intensely at a half dozen other Universities as they do at Harvard. "I think we do our best job recruiting anywhere we go," says Jean Ledoux, director of professional recruiting at the Los Angeles-based law firm Buchalter, Nemer, Christie for Younger. "We always put our best foot forward." A majority of Harvard law students do not want to work on the West Coast, Ledoux says, so firms such as hers recruit more heavily within their region...
...Under his administration the anthro department grew in status and increased its ability to recruit students," says Cantor. "It is true that he was extremely opinionated and sometimes brusque, but so are many chairs, and many college presidents...
...make no mistake, there is still a big difference between Marine boot camp and Outward Bound. In one platoon at the M.C.R.D., half the recruits admitted they were afraid of heights. Now they are about to endure what the Marines call the "slide for life," clambering up a 35-ft.-high wooden tower and then descending headfirst down wires that stretch across a muddy ditch. A recruit clings like a frightened tree sloth to the wire. Then, slowly, his grip loosens and he plunges into the muddy water. "You just let go. You didn't even try," snaps the angry...