41.   Under pressure from the United States, the United Nations has imposed a hiring freeze, which officials say makes it difficult to recruit qualified women for senior positions.

42.   Under the new laws, people who deceptively recruit women for the sex industry face up to seven years in jail.

43.   Fuji and Sato allegedly set up an office in this western city to recruit Mexican women to send them to Japan.

44.   Islamic militants in Egypt recruited women by promising marriage if they would help them hide weapons and explosives, newspapers reported here Tuesday.

45.   They also called for more severe penalties against those who recruit the women.

46.   The women were recruited through ads in local newspapers and flown to Germany to meet with their German contacts, Christianne Lurs and Rudolf Lex, according to police.

47.   To woo buyers, an increasing number of them recruited young women clad in skimpy clothing.