Word: learns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's subway police learn un poco de espa...
Said Dartmouth Senior John Rich, 20: "When people found out the police were coming up, they made jokes like 'How can you teach them Spanish when they need to learn English first?' Their visit helped us see them as people." Added Dartmouth Junior Anthony Lotson: "They're very eager to learn...
Still, the policemen applauded their course work, which touched on barrio savvy as well as verbal skills. They learned, for example, that it can be a sign of respect, not belligerence or guilt, when a Hispanic youth looks down rather than directly at a policeman in conversation. Said Officer Cesarini: "Before, when they'd come up to us and ask us something, we'd wonder what they were asking. Now I feel like I can help." Added Student Apprentice Rich: "I thought these policemen would want to learn stuff like 'Halt, put up your hands...
...conceited stud, busty girls and so on. Once these kids and the head counselors (Murray for the boys and Kate Lynch for the girls) are introduced, the film meanders aimlessly. Half the time, Meatballs forgets to exploit the gags that it so laboriously sets up. No sooner do we learn, for instance, that Camp Northstar is in the throes of a power blackout or a parents' day than the film veers off on an unrelated tangent...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission 's reckoning, some of the responsibility for the near miss at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant lay with control-room personnel: they were not able to cope with a crisis. Just how should reactor operators learn their jobs? To find out, TIME Correspondent Peter Staler visited a nuclear training school near Chicago, where emergencies are programmed into the curriculum. His report...