Word: recruits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...times have changed. In part it's simply a matter of the available labor pool. In these booming times, the Navy can't recruit enough men for its 315 ships. The other driving force has been the Navy's resolve to bleach the stain of the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, at which naval aviators sexually assaulted 83 women and then tried to cover it up. For years the Navy has been fighting the perception that women are not welcome in its ranks...
Narayan is one such recruit. The son of a farmer, he went off to college carrying his family's hopes that he would become a lawyer. For a while, Narayan tried to play the part--"I would wear ties, go out drinking with my friends and keep looking for fun"--but he soon fell into the company of some RSS members. "I began to understand the emptiness of my life," he says. "I decided to struggle for the preservation of our glorious culture, which is under threat...
Eventually, Bodega's forces try to recruit Chino. "It's about upward mobility," Bodega's right-hand man tells Chino. The temptation is hard to resist. "Why not us?" Chino asks himself. "If these dreams...take off, El Barrio would burn like a roman candle, bright and proud...
...district will actively recruit white students from other areas to help restore the school's racial balance...
...many of them to desegregate by admitting more whites. Many offer minority scholarships to white students. Given the tide of opposition to affirmative action at mainstream institutions, the whites-only scholarships have sparked an outcry. But with African-American enrollment dropping, historically black colleges have no choice but to recruit people of all races. "Lincoln is schizophrenic at this point," says Rosemary Hearn, who has taught English at the school for 42 years. "There's always that real concern about how we're going to maintain our heritage...