Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of possible wrath or ridicule, he tends to retreat to "safe" positions. By such faculty flinching, everyone is cheated. Who knows what the world loses, wrote John Stuart Mill, in "the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral"-or subversive or even Philistine...
...reason for the demand is that the U.S. boxcar population has dropped from 700,000 in 1958 to 571,367 today. In the normal flow of freight traffic, railroads usually handle a large number of one another's boxcars, and rare is the half-mile-long freight train that is not a geographically fascinating string of many-colored U.S. railroad names. For each day that a line keeps another's boxcar after it is unloaded, it pays an allowance of $2.88-a fee that has not changed since 1902. That price is cheaper than buying expensive new boxcars...
Ancient Practice. While most countries depend on vocational schools to train their workers. West Germany has the world's largest apprentice population (1,200,000). German industrialists think apprenticeship does the job better, while imbuing the apprentice with a respect for craftsmanship and loyalty to the employer...
...Collar Yearnings. Under German law, an apprentice may work only 36 hours a week, must spend an additional eight hours weekly studying technical or liberal arts subjects. The pay is a low $15 to $40 monthly, but the company usually provides for board and lodging if the apprentice is training away from home. Siemens figures that each apprentice costs $1,000 a year to train, and is worth it. Though apprentices are not required to go to work for the outfit that trained them, 98% of them...
...working on several projects. He is preparing a grammar of the dialects of ancient Gaul to accompany his monumental work, Dialects of Ancient Gaul(1949), and he is also working on his autobiography (which, he insists, will not be published during his lifetime). In addition he is trying to "train" himself for retirement to a quiet routine at home with his wife. All his life, Whatmough has gotten up no later than four in the morning; he claims he does his best work at that time of day. "Now, I try never to get up before four." he says...