Word: recruits
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...fought in any wars since 1945, not a single member of its forces today has combat experience. The weakest link is the ground troops. The navy, though small and ill equipped, is well disciplined, while the air force enjoys high morale. The army has found it difficult to recruit the 20,000 men needed every year just to keep up its current strength. Coordination among the three branches is poor; commanders rarely speak to each other unless necessary. All services suffer from a chronic shortage of fuel and ammunition...
...central administration's decision to have the appointments of empiricists before any more theorists professors have said. "It's been Rosovsky's decision," said Stone. "Unless he build up a critical mass of people in the empirical area, he wouldn't be able to recruit," any such researchers, he added...
...face of it, things are not that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
...executives concede that despite its wide-ranging successes, the company has its weaknesses and has made some major mistakes over the years. Despite increased efforts to recruit women and minorities, there are still few of either in management ranks. Only 3,089 of IBM's more than 29,000 managers are women. IBM policies, moreover, can seem high-handed, especially toward women. In December 1981, a California jury awarded $300,000 to an IBM marketing manager who quit after the company objected to her romantic relationship with a former employee who had joined a rival firm. She resigned when...
...Donald came to be the most eager recruit in the training camp of a right-wing private army commanded by a fried-chicken franchisee from Detroit is the substance of Michael Ritchie's bleakly acute comedy. The Survivors is the summer's only true satire, a mostly successful attempt to puncture a ballooning national lunacy with pinpricks of beleaguered rationalism. The film may face a survival fight of its own; it contains nothing that an adolescent can get behind...