Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is the high dropout rate among air controller trainees at the FAAs Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. When the strike began last August, the FAA announced plans to train 5,500 new controllers a year, triple the usual number; nine months later only 1,490 have graduated from the Oklahoma academy. Of the 717 trainees who enrolled in the first class last August, only 406 passed; normally 75% of the trainees graduate from the twelve-to 16-week program. Since then, the entrance exams have been made more stringent, and the FAA claims that now about...
DIED. W. Cameron Townsend, 85, pioneering Protestant missionary who brought the Bible to primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian...
That hardness was forged by a life of jailings, torture and clandestine activity that began long before many of Carpio's revolutionary colleagues were even born. The son of a shoemaker, Carpio became a school dropout at the age of 13. He first tried and failed to become apprenticed in his father's trade, then learned to be a baker. In 1943, at the age of 24, he joined the El Salvador Federated Bakery Workers' Society, a trade union. With Carpio's help, the group built a powerful union that in 1944 staged a successful strike...
...would-be economist turned university dropout, Villalobos was a left-wing student leader. In 1971 he began to form clandestine groups to foster "armed struggle" in El Salvador. In 1973 he officially declared the existence of the E.R.P. and led it underground...
...rise on a fairly elaborate living room, cluttered and homey No streetlamps here: the idiom is absolutely current, the conversation of two writers in their early 20s grounded in references so familiar and accessible that they occasionally give one pause. The writer, John Monroe (Kevin Porter), is an Amherst dropout writing a novel. A former girlfriend wanted him to go back to business school, he tells Natalie, the lover who narrates his story, but the relationship went nowhere Natalie. (Pamela Thomas) has graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit his book...