Word: retrained
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...work specialists. The National Science Foundation is sending 15 unemployed scientists and engineers in the San Francisco Bay Area back to school to learn computer technology, a field where there is still a manpower shortage. The Housing and Urban Affairs Department is joining with the Labor Department to retrain up to 2,000 unemployed engineers this summer for work on urban problems. Still, scientific leaders think this is not enough. The president of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Melvin Calvin, for example, wants direct federal salary support ($10,000 a year) to help the jobless as they start new careers...
...them to work, the Government will have to help retrain many of the jobless veterans of aerospace and help redirect others into different industries. Washington is doing little of that. Its unimaginative performance augurs poorly for the even larger conversion to peacetime that will come later. At M.I.T. and the University of California, HUD has opened about 25 cram courses to prepare technologists for public-service jobs. One of the few programs that provide extensive retraining is run at the University of California at Irvine, where participants study for a master's degree in environmental engineering. But only 34 people...
...balanced application of science and technology on many fronts." If this balance is to be achieved, the ingenious aerospace chiefs have to find ways to direct more of their skills to down-to-earth problems, and the Government will have to scratch up more resources to retrain their workers...
...unexpected order for additional garments "almost solely by pushing a button"-something no foreign manufacturer can yet do. Besides, the savings in labor costs promise to be considerable because the machine does not demand raises, go on strike or show up late for work. Genesco plans to retrain any workers who are displaced, and union leaders say that they will accept the machine as long as workers are not laid off or have to take wage cuts...