Word: sharpen
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While the Reagan Administration is currently giving El Salvador $104 million in economic aid, it is also contributing $80 million to the armed forces. In October 1980, Washington sent the first of 51 noncombatant military advisers to El Salvador to sharpen the army's counterinsurgency skills. Last January, the U.S. Army began a training program for 1,466 Salvadoran troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran...
...leader in losses. During 1981, it flew about $360 million in the red. To raise money, Pan Am two years ago sold its headquarters building in New York City and made $294 million. Last year it sold its profitable chain of Intercontinental Hotels for $500 million. To sharpen a sagging management, Pan Am's board of directors encouraged William Seawell to retire last year and named C. Edward Acker, then the boss of Air Florida, as new chairman...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder started two freshmen last night. Valerie Jordan and Andrea Mainelli, saying that she wanted to get some new blood into the lineup. She added that the purpose of the game had been to "sharpen us up" for the game against Cornell on Sunday...
Walesa and Jaruzelski increasingly face the problem of being hamstrung by their hard-line factions. The severity of the challenge to their respective authorities may sharpen when government-union talks begin, possibly as early as the end of this week, over such Solidarity demands as democratic local elections, worker self-management, and a socio-economic council to monitor the country's industrial performance. The moderate instincts of Walesa and Jaruzelski, as well as those of Poland's Roman Catholic Church, will once again be tested...
...about its new factory, which will operate around the clock, seven days a week, all year long. Says President Teruhiko Yamazaki: "The accuracy is better than humans can do, and the machines never have a blue Monday." To keep the equipment as precisely tuned as possible, workers help re-sharpen each machining center's drum of accessory tools every six or seven days. Such tasks, and programming the factory's computers, are all that the plant now requires of employees. There are normally ten to twelve workers in the plant during the day, but just one watchman...