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Lionbridge and its competitors recruit at universities and industry websites such as linguistlist.org with specialists of all stripes in demand, from automotive experts to those with a knack for medical jargon. "India has about a dozen dialects needed to capture a substantial customer base, says Bolen, "so for Nokia we're translating applications and phones and instructions in nine different ways...
...take matters into his own hands. U.S. troops try to help Hamed by keeping up patrols in the area and raiding safe houses of the Mahdi Army - which denies any operations in Ghazaliya. But the U.S. raids often come to nothing. Shi'ite militants have a knack for disappearing before U.S. forces can nab them. And the U.S. patrols aren't omnipresent. Much of the time the sheik...
...very powerful way of communicating messages.” A former fellow producer, Rowan W. Dorin ’07, thinks of two things when trying to characterize Singh: a “dead-on” impression of Britney Spears on all fours, and his knack for integrating himself into foreign communities like the ones he worked with in Paris while doing thesis research. “Even though he’s clearly American, it didn’t matter,” Dorin says. “He was so warm that people just embraced him. They...
...equivalent of off-Broadway, to fashion his next career: as the formidable director of stage plays on film and videotape (10 of them, from 1982 to 1988). In 1992 he stormed back from exile with The Player, writer Michael Tolkin's vivid, genial satire of the movie industry's knack for corrupting American optimism and ingenuity - by which time a system of indie distributors was in place to bankroll Altman's more ambitious projects and return him to the mainstream of American movies' minor stream...
...imagination: he knew when to desist with the orthodox and try the unexpected, and he stepped in when one of his bowlers was sending down rubbish, regardless of the bowler's name. Richie Benaud was the master of appearing assured even when the plane was in a nosedive, a knack Ponting rarely displayed in England. What's not in doubt is that his players want him as captain. "I know he has a lot to offer, and there's probably nobody else who could do it at the moment," says MacGill. "I think he's copped a lot of grief...