Both are wishful of broadening hockey's recruiting base through minority-group participation.

The regiment was the basic combat unit as well as the recruiting base for soldiers.

We have a broad recruiting base in the South that we're going to reach more effectively.

(UMass is a team with virtually no local recruiting base.)

And with more than 180,000 members nationwide and chapters on 132 campuses, it could provide a formidable recruiting base for the Dole campaign.

"The Special Forces units were not cut at all, yet our recruiting base has been cut in half."

And, he added, "the recruiting base tends to be a little thin when a party's been out of power for so long."

Furthermore, Wisconsin basketball has in the past had no recruiting base, little fan support and even less history.

"Snyder went out and recruited junior-college players because he didn't have a good recruiting base in Kansas, and he turned it around."

It had the conference's smallest budget and virtually no local recruiting base.