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From there, according to Brinton, missionaries-to-be go to the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah for two months of training, including learning a foreign language, if necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Favor Religion Over Studies | 4/9/1996 | See Source »

Management seminars at the Covey Leadership Center in Provo, Utah, (grossed $70 million in 1994); books, including The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Man's Ted Sorensen Is Another's Marianne Williamson | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...small-market group was headed by Sioux Falls; Provo, Utah; Bolise, Idaho; Santa Fe, N.M., and Rapid City...

Author: By Anne M. Stiles, | Title: Study Ranks Best Cities to Start One's Career | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area tops Money's eighth annual "Best Places to Live in America" list. The Chamber of Commerce ought to be happy: Fortune magazine, also published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small Midwestern cities like Jackson, Mich., home of that state's largest prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES . . . THE BEST, THE WORST, AND ANDY'S FAVORITE | 8/17/1994 | See Source »

Each of those who serve first attend the Missionary Training Center in Provo, which can handle 3,000 students at a time. Part of their studies includes intensive language training for several hours a day, seven days a week. From Armenian to Vietnamese -- including such low-demand tongues as Estonian, Tahitian and Icelandic -- 38 different languages are taught at the center, usually by former missionaries or foreign students from nearby universities. At Mormon-backed Brigham Young University, more than 60% of the 28,000 students acquire extensive foreign-language experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language The State of Many Tongues | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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