It has spent four years cultivating Catholic leaders, organizing more than 50,000 volunteers and hiring a corps of paid staff members to increase Catholic turnout.
Every company, of course, protects its interests in the places where laws are made and adjudicated, so in hiring its corps of Washington insiders and dispensing cash from its political action committee, Facebook is just joining the mainstream.
Recently, he hired a corps of searchers it find people who get lost.
And at a time when city agencies are facing steep budget cuts and a hiring freeze, a corps of temporary, federally-subsidized workers could take up the slack.
Ms. Greenhouse, a career civil servant who was the chief contracts monitor at the Army Corps of Engineers at the time, objected that the contract was based on repair plans and cost estimates that KBR itself had been hired by the corps to prepare, and that the emergency conditions did not justify a multiyear no-bid contract.
Why not marshal public fury at the Gulf oil disaster to generate funds for a huge new environmental corps, capable of hiring, and training, hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans?
Instead, he and his colleague Mr. Greenlaw argue for new mortgage rules that would reduce foreclosures and steady the housing market, payroll tax credits to encourage hiring and a new job training corps for unemployed workers.
That belief has spawned a nationwide movement to improve the quality of the teaching corps by firing the bad teachers and hiring better ones.
I don't hire anybody for the corps.
The Gulf Cartel has brought in a corps of hired hit men, known as the Zetas.
As budgets have allowed, police and fire departments, along with ambulance corps, have hired staff and upgraded equipment.
