Word: stints
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Farnborough, England As an Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories on my home country. From Tarrytown, New York, to Tallahassee, Florida, people are thinking about India. They want to know where Chennai and Hyderabad are on the map. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do a stint working in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But the Indian Elephant must not allow corruption...
...Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do stint work in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But the Indian Elephant must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down in the race with the Chinese Dragon. Krish V. Krishnan Wilmette, Illinois...
...born in Midland, Texas, and bounced between parents who divorced when he was 4. Green, who was in his teens when his mother spent six months in jail for drunken driving, dropped out of school after 10th grade. In February 2005, fresh from a three-day jail stint for underage possession of alcohol, he enlisted in the Army, and a month later--during basic training--he was baptized in a makeshift prayer room in a kitchen at Fort Benning, Ga. In December, after Green had been sent to Iraq, he was quoted in a newspaper article as saying...
...Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories about my home country [June 26]. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. They want to know where Chennai and Hyderabad are on the map. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do a stint working in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But India must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down...
...Hall, Harvard was the springboard to Oxford where, he says, the party continued. After a stint at Stanford, he returned to Harvard, where he became a fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, which brings together brilliant young scholars from many different disciplines to learn from each other...