Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruz's case was one of bonafide culture shock. He was closed out of a social life he had no experience in. "I did not know how to skate or swim, nor had I been to a movie theater or beach...
...dynamic of my and many other lives at Harvard. I doubt many of those who were my friends in high school would recognize or understand me today. Special "lifelong" friends from freshman and sophomore years have changed as well, taking on new personas and growing in ways that would shock anyone who hadnot seen them for a year or more...
France's grandes ecoles, the elite graduate schools in which its political, business and professional leaders are trained, not only provide a ticket to the upper reaches of French life but also serve as a repository of the nation's highest culture and learning. Imagine the shock, then, when France's top business school, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, decided to offer a management program next fall that will be taught in English. Reason: English has become the language of international business...
...When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...
...acre island about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu. They were to study some of the 14 million seabirds that nest there, and they looked forward to their stay on what they assumed would be an island paradise with pristine beaches. What they discovered came as a shock. The sands of Laysan were strewed with an unbelievable variety of plastic trash. While doing his bird-watching chores, Fefer cataloged thousands of pellets as well as toy soldiers, disposable lighters and one toy Godzilla--all made of plastic. "This is one of the most remote islands in the world," he says...