Word: retrainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrefutable bit of logic that forced South Bend, Ind., to open job-training schools: minimal relief for 6,900 workers let out by Studebaker Corp. last December would cost about $1,000,000 a year more than a big program to retrain them. Now, as a result of the economic blow that it suffered, South Bend is the patternmaker of a branch of U.S. education that could potentially enroll most of the nation's 4,000,000 unemployed...
Farmer also asked that Americans retrain from giving expensive Christmas gifts, and that the money saved be donated to the civil rights cause...
Aging young engineers obviously need a depletion allowance as their knowledge goes out of date, and last week the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided something akin to it: a $5,000,000 grant to M.I.T. for a new cram school to retrain seasoned engineers...
...soften the impact, the railroads agreed to pay dismissed workers up to 60% of their regular wages for three years, and help pay to retrain them for other jobs. The cost of such aid would be high to the railroads, already suffering under competition from trucks, buses and planes. Even so, the job eliminations that the railroads want probably would result in savings of some $350 million annually after ten years. It is unlikely that the railroads can recoup the full $500 million a year that they claim featherbedding costs, largely because in some states the size of railroad crews...
...spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly about his food or the hospital routine. And the dulling of his sensitivity may make him careless of toilet habits. Worst of all, this patient, with supposedly less crippling damage, lacks the strong motive to retrain himself that speechlessness provides...