Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For demographic reasons, the manpower squeeze is going to get even tighter. Because of generally declining birth rates since 1960, a decreasing number of Americans will be reaching the minimum military enlistment age of 18 in the 1980s. The Pentagon will have an ever more difficult time getting enough recruits...
Generally, the President more than held his own in the skirmishing. As the slow counting finally ended in Florida's complicated caucus balloting to select delegates to a virtually meaningless Democratic convention, it was clear that Carter had decisively turned back the challenge of Kennedy's volunteer supporters...
Volunteer Services for the Disabled, a student-run aid group, organizes readers for the blind and assistants for handicapped students with wheelchairs.
Given the small turnout that is expected, as few as 100 votes could decide many of the contests, even in the big counties. In any event, no matter who wins the caucuses, President Carter is the heavy favorite to carry the straw vote in November, because his followers dominate the...
The volunteer juries have turned out to be sensitive and imaginative. They have handed out some less-than-draconian but effective decrees: ordering a 17-year-old to join an athletic team; rebuking a father for belittling his son and "being part of the problem"; instructing a youth to write...