The group has expanded and taken over or merged with doctors in other practices, or has recruited specialists one by one.

And employers who need to recruit highly educated technical specialists are going to have a lot more luck convincing somebody to come to the desert.

Mr. Greenberg often recruits specialists from other fields and teaches them the insurance business - as long as they are quick studies.

"And the Guild is being allowed to actively recruit specialists on nineteen human planets."

St. John's helped it to recruit top specialists and to turn a profit for the first time in years.

Despite a good past record, recent problems with Russian spacecraft highlight the need for modernisation and to recruit younger specialists.

He recruited veterinary specialists from the region, and he hopes to draw pet owners from a wide area.

The reason is the dollar's decline, making it difficult to recruit specialists from Western Europe and Japan.

Executives at the American firms concede that the Japanese are spending more on computers and are recruiting specialists to develop these new products.

To make up for their lack of expertise, both Ms. Clark and Mr. Shah recruited specialists on terrorism.