Abu Hajer was issued a car, a Toyota Hilux with four-wheel drive to enable him to reach remote assignments.
In 1971, however, he fell out of favour with Ceaușescu, who divested him of all positions except his membership on the Central Committee and launched him on a career of remote assignments, frequent transfers, and decreasing responsibilities.
All participants felt that rural postings must have special career or monetary incentives given the loss of locum (i.e. moonlighting income), the higher workload, and professional isolation of remote assignments.
Increased remote-assignment allowances and benefits, including support for dependents, were suggested as ways to mitigate this situation.
Unless I am forced to because I cannot find a new project (for whatever reason), I truly aim for remote, freelance assignments.
What followed was increased access to primary schools thanks to the construction of new classrooms, the rehabilitation of existing classrooms and school infrastructure, and the training and hiring of female teachers, particularly for assignments in remote areas of the country.
Part way through the assignment, working in remote African villages, I could no longer button my pants.
He gets a new assignment on the remote islands of Kiribati, where he's supposed to help film a (yawn) survival TV show.
Now Edgar has abandoned a career in law to become a fledgling reporter on assignment in a remote corner of Portugal (Ms. Shriver calls this imaginary place Barba, where a terrorist organization known as SOB is supposedly fighting for Barban independence).
