Word: stints
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...coming into a blessed situation by joining a pretty experienced staff.” Frazier has shown versatility to this point in his career, interning with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls prior to his two years with Iowa’s football staff. In a short stint training the Hawkeyes, the two-time All-Ivy selection left a notable impression. “[Frazier] is very progressive and very intelligent,” fellow Iowa football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle said. “I think he takes a comprehensive approach to training the athlete...
Upon his return from a brief stint as a correspondent in Iraq (recounted in his previous book, War Reporting for Cowards), British journalist Chris Ayres takes up a job as a Hollywood correspondent for the London Times. There, he witnesses a less violent, but equally disturbing, scene - the rapacious, debt-funded and seemingly insatiable spending habits of upwardly mobile West Coast Americans. Assigned to cover this world, he is compelled to emulate it, purchasing gargantuan televisions, unnecessary beauty treatments, pricey meals, and shady real estate. With dry British wit, he skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic...
...century, it was the norm in Latin America to limit presidents to one term, a safeguard against the lifetime rule so many caudillos had set up for themselves in the past. As democracy gained a stronger foothold on the continent, many countries voted to allow their leaders a second stint in office. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...national public service academy was first championed by George Washington. Retired from his own stint of government service, and living out his days at Mt. Vernon, he still regaled visitors with a plan for a national college that would train America’s future government leaders. The idea was recorded in his will but never came to fruition. Now is the time to fulfill Washington’s original call to service...
...After completing his mandatory two-year stint in the Iranian Army, Khatami went on to become the editor-in-chief of the popular Iranian newspaper, the Kayhan Daily and later was appointed to the Iranian Parliament...