Word: fulbright
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...business experience tends to undercut the criticism that a man with no formal diplomatic background was chosen for the top foreign policy job in an Administration already woefully lacking in international expertise. "Relative to the rest of the Administration, Shultz has had experience," says former Senator J. William Fulbright. "He brings to the office an enormous personal acquaintanceship with heads of state around the world," says New York's Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston...
...first-person singular pronoun were eliminated, and then proceeded to converse through an entire meal without using it--is also interested in languages. He will continue his education next year in Germany, where he will study philology on a German scholarship administered in this country by the Fulbright committee. He speaks several European languages in varying degrees of fluency, and has picked up snatches of many languages from students and visiting scholars; he counts a recent course in Arabic as among his favorite at Harvard. Still, the study of language and linguistics in Germany does not seem for Sheppe...
...Minority student" is a label that Rodriguez dislikes and regrets having accepted for himself, first at Stanford, then as a graduate student at Columbia. By the time he won a Fulbright scholarship, he was in no way "socially disadvantaged." Yet in 1976, when fellow graduate students were scrounging for teaching jobs, Rodriguez found himself overwhelmed with offers from top universities, not because he was a skillful scholar-teacher-which he was-but simply because he was a member of a racial minority. Disillusioned by what he regarded as the unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race...
Born in Italy, Giacconi completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Milan in 1954 and continued his studies in elementary particles at the University of Indiana and Princeton University with a Fulbright Fellowship. In the late fifties he joined American Science and Engineering Corp., where he began work in x-ray astronomy which led to the discovery of the first x-ray star...
Young Caroline meets Ivan during a Roman holiday in the late 1950s. At 29, he is one of those postwar perennial students, a Fulbright scholar studying the relationship of architecture to the rise and fall of empires. His real talent, he believes, lies elsewhere. "I think," he says to Caroline, "I would be good at telling people how to go about getting what they want. That's if they know what they want to begin with...