Word: retrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steps to reduce political repression and to signal its need for support from Western governments. Last month Mugabe ordered the Korean-trained Fifth Brigade that was responsible for the massacres earlier this year to leave Matabeleland. When the brigade's Korean instructors returned home, Mugabe invited Britain to retrain its 5,000 troops...
...federal and state governments to begin directing the changes, strategically giving benefits to businesses only if they agree to pursue this master plan. The federal government could arrange for companies to train unemployed workers in return for vouchers, change the tax code to give benefits to companies which retrain the employees, could establish regional banks to give low interest loans to industries which agree to restructure themselves, and finally could create a public White House board which could monitor how industries were doing in becoming competitive...
...book's foreword, however, Bok writes. "The final product is not what I had envisaged at the outset. At an early stage, the authors concluded that they could not retrain entirely from expressing their own opinions without making it too bland and undiscriminating...
Control Data of Minneapolis has been investing in the corporate retraining business for several years. It sells a computer and software system called Plato that lets workers teach themselves skills ranging from high school math to robotics, then follows up with on-the-job instruction. Insists Chairman William Norris: "You can't retrain unless you use computers. It costs too much for small companies otherwise." Control Data's effort has yet to pay off, but the company hopes Plato will be in the black next year...
...weeks ago the Reagan Administration proposed its own plan, which would set aside in its 1984 budget $200 million to retrain teachers certified in other subjects for instruction in science and math. Working through state agencies, the plan would provide up to $5000 for unemployed and newly certified teachers. While officials in educational organizations were encouraged by the Administration's concern, they are quick to point out the meagerness of the plan in the face of an enormous crisis. One official in the National Education Association estimated in The New York Times that the plan would provide one teacher each...