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echo: barktopus
to: Robert Comer
from: jeff
date: 2004-10-21 13:47:30
subject: Re: Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell

From: jeff 

I had a boss (couple of them, actually) who, when handing out nasty
assignments would say that they were "an opportunity to excel."

This sounds suspiciously similar.

Robert Comer wrote:
> That's not quite a draft, just more incentive to volunteer.
>
> - Bob Comer 
>
>
> "jeff"  wrote in message
> news:4176a47c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Robert Comer wrote:
>>
>>>I don't remember him ever saying that, but there's no way we could keep
>>>doing what we're doing in the "War on Terror" without
getting a lot more
>>>troops, and it's not looking like the volunteers are coming out of the
>>>woodwork right now...
>>>
>>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>Sounds like the GI Bill to me (also sounds very non-specific):
>>
>>http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_service/
>>
>>Engage 200,000 Americans A Year In "Service For College"
>>John Kerry and John Edwards will offer a simple deal to hundreds of
>>thousands of America's young people: if you will serve for two years in
>>one of America's toughest and most important jobs, we will cover four
>>years of tuition at a typical public university.
>>
>>
>
>
>

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