Word: retrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food than do the citizens of any other major country. Instead of fighting this progress, C.R.L.A. might do better to stress another demand in its suit: that the university use some of its license and royalty income from development of farm machines to set up a fund to retrain farm workers displaced by the machines...
...girl's brain turned into a monster, swelling uncontrollably. Angry and desperate, the surgeon eventually closed her incision, certain that the patient would soon die. But for reasons as inexplicable as its rampage, the brain slowly recovered-damaged, but still eminently serviceable. Although she has had to retrain herself in many routines. Kathy Morris functions well and has retained her gift for singing...
Milnes' vocal judgment, at least, was excellent. Verrett acted with an effective blend of charm and elusiveness. For a few years she has been trying to retrain her lush mezzo voice to sing soprano roles. The strategy seems wrong; by now the registers of her voice are as separated as the drawers of a desk. Only near the end did her singing match her style...
...appropriations bill for Labor and HEW. In one way or another, its varied programs touched the lives of millions of Americans: medical research conducted by the National Institutes of Health; community health services; drug treatment and prevention projects; Head Start, which gives special treatment to poor preschoolers; plans to retrain workers for better jobs. When Ford vetoed the bill on Dec. 19, the Democratic leaders in the House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they mounted their effective attack on wobbly Republicans and conservative Democrats during the long recess. "We unleashed everybody," says Majority Leader Thomas...
...year, but it came at a crucial moment. When drought and famine hit the country in late 1974, the Soviets stepped in quickly and efficiently; within a few weeks they had airlifted 120,000 starving nomads from the parched interior to camps near the coast and provided experts to retrain them as fishermen and farmers. In other states, such as Uganda and Angola, the U.S.S.R. has gained friends by providing military equipment and advisers...