Definitions
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- n. Compulsory service in the armed forces; conscription
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- n. compulsory service in the military during peacetime
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Examples
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We were both working hard: I was practicing law at a small civil rights firm and had started teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, while Michelle had decided to leave her law practice, first to work in Chicago’s Department of Planning and then to run the Chicago arm of a national service program called Public Allies.
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It encompassed market-focused business planning and a product strategy including new product planning, service strategy development, and the development of national service standards, as well as positioning, visual identity development, marketing communications, and employee communications.
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“When you add all those up,” comments John Petersen, national service manager of Montgomery Ward and Company, “the failure rate has to be higher.”
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