One idea behind the program is to "work with groups you wouldn't ordinarily work with through the course of your week, " says Lars Schmidt, NPR's senior director of talent acquisition and innovation, who says in past sessions he has helped develop a new social-media training program for staff.

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Bishop, through the course of his work, was familiar with the Pacific Command's highest priority capability gaps, the declaration said.

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In addition to the argument about the competency-based education approach presenting a poor simulacrum of the traditional higher education experience, there is also the nagging question as to whether the students who pursue this type of accreditation have truly gained the same level of subject area knowledge and expertise as those who have slogged through four years of course work.

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"It is better to give them the opportunity for a few weeks to actually work, and of course retain their payment through their benefits".

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They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.

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And let's get through the primary process and let this week work its course.

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And of course we work very closely on stopping terrorism, on Afghanistan, and the issues of transportation and transit through the territory of Kazakhstan that we discussed two years ago.

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