Word: kenyan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kenyan's comments were not quite as advertised. According to an anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati, who saw the spot when it aired on NBC, the new pitchman was actually saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes." Nike contends that an earlier script called for the tribesman's ironic comment, but the company decided in the end to stick with its slogan in the subtitle. Nike plans to keep running the spot during TV specials, so viewers will still have an opportunity to brush up on their...
Citing growing unemployment among skilled Kenyan workers, Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Widner sees the possibility that foreign teaching groups could grow increasingly unpopular among government leaders. "What they [officials] would really like," Widner says, "is for the U.S. to give them the money to pay Kenyans to teach...
Volunteering students pay World Teach $3,100 for airfare and administrative costs to teach in Kenyan schools five hours a day for one year. Though most volunteers have no formal teaching experience, they work in community schools, called "Harambee," each of which can serve anywhere from 10 to 500 students. As many as 200 can pass through a single teacher's classroom...
...most beautiful aspect is "probably the Kenyan people," Oye says. Oye, who now lives near Binghamton, New York, marked that despite cultural differences, she developed friendships that she will keep for a lifetime...
...World Teach has lived up to its original recruitment posters in spirit, if not in letter. Kremer began recruiting teachers for the Kenyan schools in 1987 with the slogan "How to become wealthy on $66 a month...