Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more personal barb came from columnist George Will, who has close ties to the Reagans. He noted archly that when Bush returned from his February trip to Asia, he called to consult with former President Jimmy Carter rather than Reagan. That may explain Bush's eagerness last week to recruit Reagan for special diplomatic missions to Asia and elsewhere...
Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita persevered for months, but last week his determination to weather the burgeoning Recruit scandal gave out. The meticulous planner and quintessential clubman of Japanese politics surprised his country by abruptly announcing that he would quit his post "to regain the trust of the people." Yet his departure had been a long time coming, as pressure built for months over what the Japanese call kinken-seiji, or money politics, the well-oiled system by which the nation's leaders attain power...
...Prime Minister clung to his job until a weekend news story reported that Ihei Aoki, his right-hand man, had received a 50 million-yen ($347,222) loan from the Recruit Co. two years ago that apparently found its way into the Takeshita campaign chest. The disclosure flatly contradicted the version of events that Takeshita had laid out before the Japanese Diet in early April. Two days after the Aoki story broke, Takeshita came to the conclusion that he could not keep his job; public disapproval was so strong that his government's popularity rating had plummeted to a mortifying...
...summer prior to my freshman year (not on an MIT parade ground). A former Navy ROTC instructor ordered a classmate with a pierced ear to stand at attention and shout, "I am a faggot! I am a faggot!" Those of us who saw this were horrified; all the new recruit had done was show up to orientation with a pierced...
...occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...