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...more effective means of addressing this problem. If turned into a graduation requirement that demanded evidence of serious study instead of the lesuirely vacationing that prevails with many semesters abroad, such a move would force undergraduates to acquire the familiarity with another country that comes only through first-hand experience. And as Bok hopes, these students also could act out their roles as undercover agents for American business, secretly conducting market research for IBM and Ford's export divisions...
Stone also doesn't think Chung will have any difficulty in finding the time to write a thesis. "It's okay to simply study Organizational Behavior, but it's better if you have first-hand experience like James," said Stone...
...school encourages its professors to serve in government to gain "practical, first-hand experience," Allison says. The school's faculty have occupied a number of significant posts: Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman is a former faculty member; Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye has served as a deputy undersecretary of state; and Mary Jo Bane, professor of political economy, is a top policy executive in New York's Social Services Department...
...school encourages its professors to serve in government to gain "practical, first-hand experience," Allison says. The school's faculty have occupied a number of significant posts: Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman is a former faculty member; Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye has served as a deputy under secretary of state; and Mary Jo Bane, professor of political economy, is a top policy executive in New York's Social Services Department...
...legal and medical specialists. Constable found a "sincere desire to end drug abuse and the desperate feeling that Government will never be able to do it." On the street, Thompson discovered another side of the story. Says he: "When I interviewed heroin and cocaine addicts in Baltimore, I saw first-hand that there is a core group of drug abusers who may be ignored by the popular concern over drug abuse: ignored except as object lessons...