DFB's board has rejected his candidate as chief talent scout, even though this job is central to his plans.

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This electronic talent scout searches for reasonably priced growth stocks with accelerating earnings or some other promising metric like expanding orders.

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One day, a talent scout for one of the Datongqiao bosses came up the valley and saw how pretty Chen Ying was.

ECONOMIST: China

Confident that I was able to understand their talent (contestant) requirements for the show, they hired me to be a talent scout for Love Connection.

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Occasionally a MacArthur talent scout's cover is blown, as when a family member of former Columbia University president William McGill spilled the beans to an obituary writer.

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Because of illness, her father moved the family to Los Angeles where the young Edna was discovered by a talent scout while singing at a school recital.

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Bieber got his start on YouTube, where home videos of him on his account singing covers of hip-hop songs from artists Usher and Chris Brown attracted the attention of a talent scout in 2007.

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As a man who had been a talent scout for years in the Delta, he naturally took charge of her career, making her change her name and urging her into an auburn wig and sexier high heels.

ECONOMIST: Ike Turner

At least according to Iovine, Field had plenty to do with the music at Interscope, regularly hitting the club scene to scout new talent.

FORBES: Field of Dreams

After the rotational phase of the Hemond Fellowship has been completed, the scholars will then report to scout school in Arizona during the fall to learn how to watch a baseball game and to evaluate talent.

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