1.   A number of corporations, however, now deploy talented employees on short-term overseas assignments that are tied to tangible business goals.

2.   Bourgeois was supposed to return in April from his overseas assignment, his grandfather said.

3.   But employers may ultimately have to boost salaries to encourage more employees to accept overseas assignments in dangerous nations.

4.   Colleagues and family who had come to mourn the deceased said they were always aware that overseas assignments posed great risks.

5.   He confessed Monday to selling Moscow the names and the overseas assignments of the new CIA officers he had trained.

6.   He is pretty certain his employer, Lucent Technologies, will soon give him the overseas assignment he has been angling for.

7.   In January, Pete left for Vietnam, the last overseas assignment he planned to accept before retirement.

8.   In the school newsletter, the guidance counselor reminded parents this week to tell children about overseas assignments, said Principal Jeanne Roberts.

9.   Others, however, are less likely to come away with overseas assignments than with a heightened sense of how international business works.

10.   Parker returned to work for the friend who took over his practice and waited for another overseas assignment.