Word: apprenticeship
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Frederic organizes the police force to fight against the pirates but is confronted by Ruth and the Pirate King (Anton Quist) before the attack. They tell him he was born on February 29 and has only truly celebrated five birthdays. Since his apprenticeship was to conclude after 21 birthdays, he feels obligated to serve the pirates until...
...play opens with Frederic's (remarkable tenor Joel Derfner) 21st birthday, marking the official end of his legal apprenticeship to a band of pirates. His nursemaid, Ruth, (a clear and comic Diana Graham) had mistaken his father's request of "pilot" for "pirate" training and, now that Frederic is free, he seeks to destroy piracy...
...real stress in the sciences is research," he says. "Science is very much like a trained apprenticeship. There is a much more intimate connection because students and you work together...
That is precisely the problem -- almost everyone is an extremist of one stripe or another when it comes to debating the legal system. Lawyers are advocates, and for some, no cause is more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial...
...associate's degree in occupational studies, students take courses in nutrition and cost control and spend weeks serving and cooking in the Culinary's four on-site public restaurants. (The presentation is stylish, the flavors subtle but often underseasoned.) They must also put in 600 hours of apprenticeship off campus at a C.I.A.-approved restaurant...