Still mining for recruits.The Pentagon has been working with a private marketing firm since 2002 to build a database of about 30 million potential recruits. The database includes all college students and high school students from 16 to 18 years of age, as well as the students' Social Security numbers, grade point averages, emails and phone numbers. Apparently, the Pentagon realized last year that they had forgotten to file a Privacy Act notice. No problem. They finally got around to it this June. As usual, with this database and beyond, Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S. is not looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. just anybody. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Pentagon's own website, the military began "overlaying ethnicity codes and telephone numbers" in 2004. This August, the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden radio station KMEL's annual Summer Jam Hip-Hop extravaganza sold out its 20,000 person capacity, as usual, to hear the likes of Talib Kweli and Common. But this year, the Navy was there, as the concert's primary sponsor. |
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