Word: recruits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Everything in the Post story was true," Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the Senate committee, told TIME. "They didn't have everything, but everything they had is true." At a meeting of the National Security Council last November, Reagan approved approximately $19 million to recruit, train and supply a small military force, in conjunction with certain right-wing governments in Latin America, including Argentina. Some of the money was earmarked for support of groups inside Nicaragua that are opposed to a Sandinista dictatorship. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees were informed late last year...
...tough most, especially for schools that don't recruit," head Coach Vicki Hays said last night. "We are still pretty happy, though, because last year we didn't send anybody to the Nationals and this year we sent five...
Horn refuses to recruit to keep the well of talent full, saying flatly that "I will not go out and search for sailors. "Rather, he says, the team record stays phenomenal because its strong reputation and tradition continue to draw the best sailors He added. "If people are interested in Harvard and sailing. I am interested in them...
Japanese students have a name for that annual examination rite: shiken jigoku-"examination hell." Each year some 700,000 students (32% of Japanese high school graduates) go on to college, but a candidate may apply to only one top university. Because government ministries and top firms all recruit from a handful of universities, having to settle for a low-ranking institution is an almost irreversible disaster. The thousands of students who do not get accepted at the one university of their choice spend a year, sometimes even two, in cram schools preparing to try again. These crammers are called ronin...
...coaches did not recruit heavily for promising freshmen. Harvard coach Bruce Munro, Gunnoe recalls, "didn't recruit in any way, shape of fashion." Instead it was Associate Dean Burris Young, then an English teacher at St. Paul's who encouraged Gunnoe to apply. Ironically, Gunnoe lived in Mass Hall his first year, a members of the last class of freshman to live there before Young took up his ongoing residence there...