In the year following their enlistment, a higher percentage of recently enlisted patients had at least one contact with the practice, received a prescription or was referred.
Although his past service to the republic and the empire undermined his credibility with the reactionary-royalist "ultra" party, Gouvion proceeded with a substantial reform program that included a recall to service of former Napoleonic officers, inducements for enlistment, a rationalization of promotion procedures, and the introduction of a lottery to fill quotas.
Since the legions were officially open only to Roman citizens, Max Cary and Howard Hayes Scullard argue that at least in some provinces at this time "many provincials must have been recruited who lacked any genuine claim to Roman citizenship but received it unofficially on enlistment," a practice that was to increase in the 2nd century.
Another journalist, trying to ignite fervor for enlistment, asked, "You, brethren, who have pined in bondage, you who have wives or children or parents writhing under the lash … can you ask any more than a chance to drive bayonet or bullet into the slaveholders' hearts?" However, those opposed to enlistment found a valuable ally in Frederick Douglass.
A spokesman for Fort Carson, Lt. Col. Dave Johnson, said a new Army program to create more-stable units whose members will stay together for three years required troops whose enlistments end before December 2007 to re-enlist, extend their current enlistments a bit or take no action and possibly be assigned to another unit.
The Athletics' chances for victory in their feature match against the Atlantics depended heavily on the performance of their star pitcher, James Dickson ("Dick") McBride, who was then in the middle of a 100-day enlistment as a private with Company A of Pennsylvania's 196th Infantry Regiment.
The Congressional Budget Office, in its cost analysis, estimated that the benefits would result in a 16percentt drop in re-enlistments, a number opponents have repeatedly cited.
The purchase of commissions by officers was abolished, and recruits were now taken on for a short enlistment in a specified regiment or corps rather than the (unpopular) system of twenty-one-year general service enlistments.
Strategic bombing is a facet of total war, the enlistment of a society's entire resources to aid in a conflict.
He describes his experience as a member of a revolutionary student cell, his naïve enlistment as a teen-age guerrilla with the Somalis, and his survival of imprisonment, famine, and near-death by firing squad with the vivid swiftness of a Stephen Crane story.
I was momentarily transported back to "A Beautiful Mind," and what a clever decision it had been to show the interactions of the mathematician-hero John Nash Russell Crowee) with a government agent (Ed Harris) and his enlistment in a top-secret project.
