Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discouraged in August and didn't train too hard for the rest of the summer," he said. "Then I had a number of little injuries which ended with my ankle injury in the Penn game...
...read my name in the list of train devotees while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. As principal conductor of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, I make a minimum of four trips a year to Europe and back. By now I fly happily, read, work and even occasionally look at the movie, although that tends to work more as a soporific than a stimulant. My train travel is restricted nowadays to a ten-minute trip around the Houston Zoo on the kids' railroad...
...Southeast Asia's largest workshop. To attract industry, the government has channeled millions over the past three years into expanding power and water supplies, building roads and clearing factory sites. School graduates who would have followed family tradition by going into clerking or shopkeeping are being urged to train as technicians and engineers. To preserve responsible wage scales, the government this year passed laws trimming certain fringe benefits and reducing the unions' voice in management. It did so with the cooperation of labor, which realizes that Singapore could never survive with British-style union practices...
They, the people who train you in the method and dangers of parachute jumping, attempt to make you forget all this...
Computers have changed the face of business and finance, and not just by eliminating the wizened clerks hunching over desks in the back room. They control the running of airline and train arrivals and departures, and it is within the foreseeable future that they will coordinate all aspects of travel including hotel and car rentals. Banks, insurance companies and the stock market are becoming automated. The list is endless, and boring...