Mostly, the statute poured federal money into stimulating the study of mathematics and science, disciplines most relevant to the arms race, but a portion provided incentives for universities to develop skilled speakers of strategic languages, especially Russian.
For now, federal security agencies should realize that in recruiting native speakers of strategic languages they may have to rely more on background checks and less on rigid rules about citizenship and residence.
And the National Security Education Program, which began in the early 1990's under the supervision of the Department of Defense, has been one of the most lucrative sources of scholarship money for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing "strategic" languages like Farsi, Arabic and Mandarin -- with special emphasis on historically black colleges and un-elite two-year institutions.
It suspended its dividend in March and has hired Goldman Sachs to explore "strategic alternatives," language that typically means a company may be sold.
Virgin Mobile USA, the cellphone service provider, said Wednesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" with Helio majority owner SK Telecom about possible strategic opportunities, language that usually indicates a deal of some kind.
At stake is our ability to compete successfully in the raw global arena, and one of the deciding factors will be Americans' ability to speak strategic foreign languages.
Social anthropology has demonstrated that there is a strategic mixing of language with culture and that both culture and social systems are conceptualised in language [ 20, 21].
Such strategic use of language rarely occurs by chance.
Still, these delays may be attributable to general cognitive impairments or strategic aspects of language processing.
However, whereas discourse analysis adopts a "blank" view of subjectivity (i.e., the author or speaker theorized as a text: Parker, 1994) or implies a strategic user of language (Madill & Doherty, 1994), Bakhtin assumes a "needy" subject, sensually engaging with the world and with others in a search for meaning (Sullivan, 2012).
