Word: specialist
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Using a battery of MAs (military acronyms), Stehley explained the recruitment process. There's the general ASVAB test, the DLAB test for language ability, the DEP for deferring enlistment, the physical, the FBI background check, the contract, the swearing in, the possibility to enlist as an E-4 (specialist or, in even more layman's terms, corporal), the ability to choose one's exact job (from infantry to counterintelligence), the eight weeks of BT (basic training) and four to 52 weeks of AIT (advanced individual training) for every recruit, the 30 days vacation per year, the medical and dental benefits...
...both sides calm down and return to the negotiating table, Washington enjoys the upper hand. "On this case the U.S. is right," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, voicing a widely held judgment among economists. Still, no one can deny that the U.S. zealously protects its domestic sugar, peanut and tobacco industries, among others. U.S. farmers retain considerable political power themselves: one of their lobbies reportedly twice foiled a GATT deal just as the two sides had come close to an agreement...
...summer before, when I went to camp, I said to myself that I would do anything to make the team," the Olympian says. "Obviously, the penalty-killing, defensive specialist role is not as glamorous...
...Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni explains, Drury was used as a defensive specialist with the Olympic team, getting ice time mostly as a penalty-killer, though occasionally as a "shadow" for an opposing nation's main threat...
Strategically, your rhetoric offers no incentive to the Palestinian delegation to negotiate peacefully. As Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Herbert C. Kelman, a specialist in negotiations, pointed out, "Those Israelis who favor withdrawal from the territories are now basically thinking about some form of a Palestinian state as the best arrangement...so it's silly for the U.S. administration to make a policy that opposes Palestinian statehood outright...