Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience or untried youngsters. A greater problem was maintenance personnel. More than one-third were draftees, who barely learned their jobs before their 18 months' service was finished. Poor maintenance has kept an average two-thirds of the Starfighters grounded, and pilots have not gotten sufficient practice to master the plane. While NATO procedures recommend 20 flying hours per month for F-104 pilots, the Luftwaffe average has been 13 or less...
While Los Angeles cannot claim to have invented the certificate of readiness, it makes unusual use of it. The court's master calendar department feeds these details into a computer along with each lawyer's schedule for the next three months, then chooses a desirable trial date which is smoothly coordinated with all other trial dates throughout the court. Trials estimated to last fewer than five hours get a date immediately. In the central court in downtown Los Angeles, civil trials of any length at all are now put on the schedule within a day after the computer...
...deep gratitude" toward "one of the city's most venerable, respected, dedicated and effective public servants." The soft soap notwithstanding, Dear Bob was being fired from his powerful job as coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation," he chided him for "the errors of your logic," and signed off as "Your venerable friend...
Cezanne claimed that all he wished to do was "revive Poussin in the contact with nature." Even Picasso, using Poussin as a pianist might an exercise in arpeggios, steadied his nerves by copying one of the past master's works while gunfire echoed through the streets of Paris...
...Silver set up his program with $253,998 from New York's Commonwealth Fund.* Only registered nurses with a master's degree in public-health nursing are eligible. (Nurse Stearly had also had two rugged Peace Corps years in Honduras.) Once accepted, they spend four months at the University of Colorado's medical center. They put in time at the well-baby clinics and the screening and emergency clinics; they get basic training in child psychiatry, pediatric neurology, pediatric orthopedics, mental retardation, eye, ear, nose and throat complaints-all of the countless ills that young flesh...