Working on one-year assignments, they are offering advice to farmers on irrigation, helping to install windmills, establishing nurseries and training veterinarians.
His knowledge of Danish computing got him a one-year assignment in Copenhagen on the promise that he would return to Hungary.
No wonder my one-year assignment turned into three peripatetic decades.
A one-year assignment to Japan stretched into almost 40 years of comings and goings.
Fellows, who may have earned six figures in the corporate world, receive a $25,000 stipend for a part-time one-year assignment.
Mr. Muehlke revealed that before they met he had accepted a one-year assignment as a political-military-affairs officer in Iraq.
He retired in September but took a one-year assignment as the acting director of the Alaska Bar Association's continuing education program.
As lofty as the lord mayor title -- and the 130-year-old gold honor chain that goes with it -- might seem, the job itself is simply a one-year assignment as ceremonial leader of the city and head of a council with authority over parochial duties like recreation, sanitation, civic promotion and neighborhood planning.
Many of the stations are staffed year-round, the winter-over personnel typically arriving from their home countries for a one-year assignment.
Steven, who returned late last year from a one-year assignment teaching English in South Korea, came up with the idea when he was visiting his cousins in Georgia in 2008.
In 1948, he was promoted to Paris bureau chief and, in December 1950, he was brought to New York by Time founder Henry Luce for a special one-year assignment to work out of the main Time offices.
