Word: retrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their neck arteries to check their heart rates. Then they jog around the gym, each member following the plan designed to bring his heart up to the desired rate. The class then goes into more strenuous calisthenics, and ends with walking to cool down. The effect is to retrain and strengthen the heart muscle so that it can work harder without fatigue...
...money is needed to transport the immigrants to Israel by air from Vienna (see box), teach them He brew, and retrain specialists whose Russian skills-dentistry and law, for instance-are inadequate by Israeli standards. New housing must also be provided, since Israel is chronically short of living space...
...express purpose of reducing auto-caused air pollution. Williams admits, however, that some modifications will be needed later for the turbine to meet even tougher antipollution laws set for 1976 cars. Considering that-and the fact that it takes much time for automakers to retool plants, realign suppliers and retrain personnel-he predicts that gas turbines will appear in passenger cars in 1978 at the earliest...
...Adolescents would be graduated a corresponding year earlier, moving on at the age of 17 to jobs, college or a year off to reconnoiter their futures. It is a proposal of such staggering simplicity that it is already meeting opposition. Teachers object that it could require them to retrain in order to teach younger children. Blue-collar parents worry that the plan would throw even more jobseekers into competition for already scarce work. In fact, however, the idea of an accelerated curriculum has been endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 7), and is under consideration...
Last week, after his second recent meeting with industry, professional and university representatives on the unemployment crisis, President Nixon announced a $42 million program, out of existing funds, to retrain and relocate the unemployed. The program, said Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson, reflects Nixon's determination to keep the U.S. "in the forefront of technology...