Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realized in Washington 81 years ago, it was one of the world's biggest rail terminals but otherwise very much of its time. Before World War I, budgets for civic building were generous, beaux-arts neoclassicism was almost obligatory, and the U.S. had more than 80,000 busy train stations...
Just 1 in 10 of those stations remains today. During the past five years alone, however, as preservation of historic buildings has attained mom-and- apple-pie popularity, 1,000 old train stations around the country have been renovated. They have been transformed into museums or municipal office buildings or restaurants. Happily, some of the old depots where trains still stop have also been refurbished: New York City's Grand Central is undergoing a / partial restoration, and in Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia, once run-down train stations are back in order...
...controversial Boston University journalism program to train Afghan rebels was part of a covert CIA propaganda effort, according to a published report this week...
...purpose of the program, according to Joe O'Connell, a spokesman for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), was "to train Afghans in journalism. We thought there was a problem. The Afghan people had no way to tell the story of Soviet occupation," said O'Connell. "We wanted to help them do it for themselves," he said...
...spokeswoman said the channels' chief purpose is "to train people in the use" of public access TV. Users must be Cambridge residents and learn to use the equipment. CCTV will not require further qualifications, she said...