Word: talents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, the CIA will begin recruiting on the Harvard campus. But a simple informational meeting might not be enough. "The War for Talent," a recent study released by McKinsey and Co. at the request of the State Department, found that competition for intelligent, talented and internationally oriented recruits will be fierce over the next two decades. Many of the brightest are not entering the workforce with hopes of becoming Bond but rather Gates or Soros. Is it the money? Partly, but not completely...
...future of any organization is largely based on the talent it can attract. If helping to prevent a nuclear crisis or stabilizing a new democracy sounds attractive for a day's work, Harvard students may help themselves and the rest of the free world by finding out whether there's something they...
Even though the Crimson lost a large number of athletes to graduation last year, it has gained ample talent in the freshman class. Out of the seven athletes who placed fourth or above in their respective events, five were freshmen...
...story is that it has always worked better on other people than it has worked on him. The whole hero mantle, he claims, makes his skin crawl. That may be carefully calculated modesty, but it may also reflect a nagging problem. "It doesn't take a lot of talent," he says, every chance he gets, "to intercept a surface-to-air missile with your own airplane." And yet that failure as a pilot meant that he joined the truly tiny group of men who returned home from a reviled war and were welcomed with parades and medals and a handshake...
...life for Bush remains a lot like rush time at the DKE house. At a time of peace and good times, he's not worried about the talent contest. He's already won Mr. Congeniality...