Word: abroader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the stock market-obsessed U.S. deems a profession to be too menial for its best and brightest, it imports drudge workers from abroad. At some point, teaching - once seen as noble - took on the status of low-end work, both in salary and prestige. So this week Chicago received federal clearance to become the second major city in recent years to import talent from abroad. The Windy City finds itself unable to fill at least 400 teaching vacancies each year, and it's not alone - earlier this year the Department of Labor declared a critical national labor shortage...
Osama Bin Laden has got to be loving this. President Clinton Wednesday warned Americans at home to be vigilant against possible terrorist attacks over the holidays, following earlier warnings by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and a State Department travel advistory warning Americans abroad to stay away from crowds. Official concern has been heightened by last week's arrest of 13 suspected terrorists in Jordan and the capture of Algerian Ahmed Ressam at a U.S. border post at the weekend with bomb-making equipment in the trunk of his car. Ressam was indicted Wednesday on charges of attempting to smuggle...
...Some students developed aplastic anemia when they were given harmful antibiotics for minor illnesses," Rosenthal says, describing a severe case faulty antibiotic use abroad...
According to OCS statistics, about 60 percent of the students in study abroad programs travel to Western Europe...
...Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also prints a guide for international travelers, which provides exhaustive details about health concerns abroad...