The average apprenticeship lasts more than 12 months and entails a rigorous period of job-relevant training.
The effort, which the official said had been going on for six months and entailed paying students from China, comes as the F.B.I. seeks to revitalize its battered reputation as a counterintelligence unit in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.
That saves the marketing manager from "having to go through a process that can take weeks or months" and entail getting approval for buying actual new machines and networking equipment, says Mark Bowker, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
Moving a company's tax residency entails months of preparations by tax advisers and accountants, and relocating a company's head office and secretarial staff abroad.
It entailed months of manipulation, grooming and gaslighting".
The next, in 1998, was also canceled months ahead, but entailed untangling herself from both the man and the apartment they had bought together.
Switching batteries would come at a steep cost, and would most likely entail months of engineering work as well as new certification by regulators.
That effort would entail months of preparation, increasing the risk of detection, and it would require elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that, as the paper dryly put it, would "bring the operation to a close".
Employees who logged on to the site shortly after it closed down were greeted with a display asking, "Well, wasn't that fun?" There is nothing lighthearted, though, about the plans by I.B.M. communications managers and researchers to assess the event, which will entail months of surveying, interviews, focus groups and data review.
She also provided the committee with new details on how she conducted a housing search for him "over the course of a couple of months," which ultimately entailed moves that his wife and he made to two separate apartments in Washington.
