Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these parasitical beneficiaries, the Bina Ramani's, are vastly out-numbered by those whose lives the West insists on mispronouncing. Have no delusions, the bare subsistence level wages of the Afghani and Iranian refugee workers and more critically, the Indian craftsmen (and women) displaced by a greedy designer's quest for lower production costs, can find no reason to celebrate this capitalistic intercourse of East and West. As my friend, the Indian writer Amitava Kumar notes, this is not a speculation about the future; it is a judgment based on the past. Zahid F. Ebrahim
...years, and in order to appreciate it, one should have read Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. A motorcycle trip from Montana to California frames the narrator's flashbacks and philosophical musings in Zen. The narrator, Phaedrus, undertakes a psychological quest to restore the part of his personality that shock therapy obliterated. He claims that philosophizing about unresolvable issues drove him crazy...
...amount of planning and forethought can prevent the occasional nightmare. Last June, Greg Davis, 34, an Elk River, Minn., florist, arrived in New Delhi to adopt a baby girl. He expected to end his 2 1/2-year quest for a child in a week's time. But a small Indian newspaper suddenly published a report declaring that Davis' prospective daughter was being purchased for organ donations abroad. The charge was outrageous, but local lawyers filed suit to prevent Davis from taking custody of the child. After spending two months and $4,500 in legal battles, Davis returned to Minnesota empty-handed...
...quest at times seems impossibly romantic, restorationists display a refreshing pragmatism. Rather than demanding that all hydroelectric dams be dynamited, river restorationists insist that power generators install fish ladders and adjust water flows to help salmon and trout reach upstream spawning grounds. Al Steuter, manager of the Nature Conservancy's 20,800- hectare (51,400-acre) Niobrara Valley Preserve in Nebraska, hopes to demonstrate how ranchers can run cattle on restored prairies without destroying them. After all, he asks, "what's the point of restoration if we have to station guards to protect the landscape...
Many of the techniques and steps of the process that you would use in a job search at home are equally useful in the overseas job quest. Information gathering - talking, reading and writing - is the way to get started. The thrust of all this activity should be directed to creating a network of contacts that will eventually lead to a job. Unless there is a booming, hungry employment market in the place you are going, you have to be a pretty good salesperson to convince an employer why they should hire an American student. Employers offering temporary jobs, in whatever...