Word: on-the-job
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...intend to go into any background," says George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco, "except his complete and utter lack of qualifications." Says Laughlin Waters, former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and another moderate contender: "I'm all for on-the-job training but not at the gubernatorial level." Reagan has refused to be drawn into an argument with his fellow Republicans, says: "I will have no word of criticism for any Republican." He believes that California's G.O.P., which has yet to recover from the abrasions of its 1964 split over Goldwater, needs...
...License. In their scramble for skilled hands, many industries have either had to relax their standards for hiring or launch costly on-the-job training programs. United Air Lines, the nation's largest line, is expanding its flight-training center in Denver at a cost of $25 million, has begun signing up trainees who lack a commercial pilot's license to meet its need for 800 new pilots a year. Pan American has dropped its insistence on a college degree. All four auto producers have set up training centers (General Motors has 30, Ford 56), summer seminars...
...used to be that someone studying for the Protestant ministry would practically never meet a Catholic," Cox says. "But now, with the diverse body and field-work program, we are giving the students the same kind of on-the-job training that medical students...
...On-the-Job Suckling. But things are perking up, thanks to an ambitious young man named France Albert René. The handsome, blue-eyed son of a coconut-plantation superintendent, René, 29, went off to London in 1955 to work his way through King's College law school, returned two years ago convinced that the Seychelles must be free-and that he must free them...
...University of Chicago explains: "The people who go into domestic service dislike having to deal with the middle-class housewife as a person and being subject to her directions. They prefer to work not singly but in teams, to wear a uniform which helps define their on-the-job role, and to have an office through which the work is scheduled. Within the sphere of house cleaning, say, such a team would thus feel superior to the woman who hires them, no longer fearful of being put down by a housewife. And for her part the housewife is likely...