Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost interest. To this day, many hail Rawlins as a hard-working visionary. She might have been that. But in trying to turn the council into the moral conscience of the campus, she estranged moderates and conservatives. When, in the fall of 1997, she launched an aggressive effort to recruit minorities and women to serve as representatives--as if there are so many barriers to entry--the backlash had already begun...
...many students can tell tales that equal or even that of Maggie. Recruiting trips always have a high potential for turning nasty, as in an effort to show the recruit a good time, team members proceed to get him or her frighteningly drunk. The consequences can be dire. The Ivy League grapevine brings us the story of the Princeton squash recruit who puked on the couch she was sleeping on and didn't get to clean it up because she had to catch a 9 a.m. train. Her host's roommates still speak of their hatred for her. There...
Citing his own personal experience, Dukakis said local canvassing campaigns are also an excellent way to recruit new volunteers...
...peculiar go-for-the-jugular charm are still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...
While the school does not plan news-worthy events solely for the purpose of generating publicity, it does seek actively to recruit students and believes maintaining institutional visibility is vital to this effort...