Word: assistant
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...ARABIA AND THE GULF STATES. No longer can the Saudis exist in semifeudal isolation; they must open themselves externally and internally. Inviting U.S. military forces to defend them was only the first step. King Fahd took another last week by urging Saudi women as well as young men to assist in the national defense effort. This week authorities will begin registering women volunteers for work in hospitals and medical services. That may gradually open the way for greater female participation in the kingdom's public life. Saudi women remain severely restricted; they are forbidden by law to drive...
...humility, started out at the top. They were law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the small cadre of top young law graduates who each term help churn out the work of the nation's highest tribunal. The clerks' job description is simple, if daunting: to assist the Justices in the crafting of the nation's final judgments. Their responsibility, however, is bounded only by the discretion of the individual Justice for whom they work. Their duties, which last a year, may range anywhere from technical researcher to ghostwriter to personal confidant...
...candidate," Rosovsky wrote in the three-paragraph announcement. "I do not wish to be a candidate. I do desire to work with my colleagues on the search committee and to assist them to the best of my ability in their critical task: to find a new leader for our University...
University officials said the man told the students he could either help them get into Harvard College, or assist them in some other way. According to the note, the man then took at least two of these students to dinner, "served them large quantities of alcohol, brought them back to his apartment, and has engaged them in sex against their will...
Increasing their velocity in Earth orbit, the spacecraft would spiral out from the planet, eventually swinging by the moon for a gravity assist that would hurl them into a trajectory toward Mars. Depending on their route and design, they could take as little as 500 days or more than 800 to reach the red planet...