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If you're in the people-selection business-in, say, a personnel or college admissions department-your job assignment can trigger a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, that being the mental disarray that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory positions.
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Rarely does a long overseas assignment turn into a bigger job.
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Ridge said that because this is a new position, the job duties and scope of his new assignment are not yet all spelled out, but it involves creating and coordinating a strategic plan for homeland defense.
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But like any employee taking on a new assignment, a big part of the job is just learning where stuff is stowed.
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Since losing my teaching job, every morning I wait by the phone hoping for a possible sub assignment to make ends meet.
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Since that assignment, she has received a promotion and completed a second special project outside her usual job duties.
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But this job can be done without giving U.S. troops a dangerous and costly long-term assignment on the Golan Heights.
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In his previous assignment as head of Citigroup Asia Pacific, he had a good shot at the top job, but it would have meant waiting his turn until current incumbent Vikram Pandit stepped down.
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