Word: retrainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government-run factories. "We must make it honorable to do a day's work," he says. "And we must get used to the idea of firing people who will not work." As the 70,000 Egyptian troops return from Yemen, Mohieddin intends to demobilize many of them and retrain them for jobs in industry...
...Mississippi, a $7,000,000 Government-financed program for retraining unemployed poor, mostly Negroes, is being run through an agency organized by a Roman Catholic diocese. In New Mexico, the $1,261,000 appropriated to retrain migrant workers was granted by the Federal Government to an organization set up by the state Council of Churches. In city after U.S. city this summer, churches played a major role in launching Project Head Start, the preschool training program for underprivileged children. In all, more than 100 federal programs are providing vast amounts of Government money to church-related agencies-and uncounted millions...
Asbell's logic boldly slashes through the tangled economic and psychological problems of adjusting to modern technology. When machines replace men, you simply retrain the idled men and rehire them to run the machines. Production goes up, and the worker rises to a higher plane of self-fulfillment and self-sufficiency. If, as often happens today, the displaced worker cannot be retrained, that is the fault of a culture which has gotten into the habit of treating its poorer members as beasts of burden. The "relations of production," not the machines, are to blame...
...economy. It set up a program of federal-state cooperation in tackling the mass transportation problems that threaten to stifle metropolitan areas, set aside some 9,000,000 acres of wilderness for future recreation and conservation. It provided federal grants to build higher education facilities, created a program to retrain employees displaced by automation. It gave top executives in Government new incentives to remain in public service by sharply increasing their salaries. In addition to these bills, all originally proposed by President Kennedy, Johnson secured passage of his own legislative package to attack poverty through a variety of federal-state...
...conscious and desperate choice at meal after meal." Many admitted that it had been years since they could trust their senses as to how much to eat. So they ate heavily and did not know when to stop. All of which points up a new problem: how to retrain these fat people to eat on signal-and only on signal...