Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basic city services such as street cleaning, trash collection, police protection, recreation and housing code enforcement remain inadequate, while citizens pay soaring taxes. Planning by the city to retain jobs and industry, put the financing of city government on a sound footing, control highrise development or get truck traffic off residential streets, is almost non-existent...
Jobs--First priority must be given to keeping the jobs we now have. The city presently does nothing to retain industry--which should be less costly than attracting new industry. Beyond this, the city's new Office of Economic Development and Manpower should work with the School Department to provide job training for youths and adults that is aimed at both the present and prospective regional job market. Finally, careful planning will be required to see that Cambridge residents receive a major share of the jobs new industry may bring to the city...
...this, the concluding section of President Allende's speech to Mexican students in December 1972, he encourages the students not to abandon their duty to their fellow citizens. He explains that it is difficult to retain socialist beliefs amid the corrosive effect of capitalist society, but he expresses his confidence that they will be able to shun the status-seeking temptations of middle-class life...
...process of education has degenerated into the business of training people who are "qualified." Dore comments that in Japan a college education is almost mandatory for self-advancement. As a result there is extreme pressure on students to qualify for college entrance, but the Japanese have managed to retain the spirit of improving themselves as individuals rather than merely acquiring qualifications. Dore attributes the Japanese desire for self-improvement to the existence of a pedagogical tradition before the Western intervention in the middle of the last century. The old education system had to cope with a society where there existed...
...acres of new glass will retain the unique reflective quality of the original glass, which was designed to mirror the clouds...