Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent Western visitors to Moscow have noticed, Mikhail Gorbachev has achieved something that only three years ago would have seemed impossible. He has made the Soviet Union appear almost normal, a place with problems and foibles much like any other nation, a country that has ethnic protests, rock concerts, train wrecks, church services, strikes, scandals and beauty contests, not to mention pizza, pollution, late-night television talk shows and a First Lady. After the congenial Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the country paused for the millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Unthinkable under the old order...
Sudduth has said that he will return to Harvard after the Olympics to complete his studies for a masters degree in Computer Science. He had postponed those studies in order to train for the Games...
...Harvard coach, Kennedy will directly train and coach all Crimson divers. In doing so, he will have two strong squads to work with...
Native wildflowers are also resistant to coaching and threats. Actress Helen Hayes, a dirty-fingernails, hands-and-knees gardener, recently decided to sow wildflowers like those she remembers seeing from train windows as she toured the country with her plays. "They won't bow to one's wishes," she says with grudging admiration. "They don't want to be tamed. That must be the reason these darling, lovely little things won't cooperate...
...personal computer -- from $2,000 to $5,000. He spoke movingly of creating low-cost "learning environments," in which university students, using computer simulations, would have access to the world's most advanced technologies. "You'd offer a physics student a personal linear accelerator or a ride on a train going the speed of light," he told a group of educators in 1986. "You'd take a biochemistry student and let him experiment in a $5 million DNA wet lab. You'd send a student of 17th century history back to the time of Louis XIV. Next year we will...