Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freight trains going through Arkansas must perform an odd ritual. At the border, the train stops and picks up one or two additional crewmen. The men remain aboard, working with the regular crew while the train traverses the state; they are dropped off as it crosses the border...
Smithies, on the other hand, saw ROTC as "part of the University's program for training people for future occupations; and therefore justified. "Why is it okay to train people for the State Department and not the military?" Smithies asked. "ROTC has been with us 150 years, and I wouldn't want to eliminate...
...think it's possible to sever Harvard from the community. That concept of a University is a medieval dream. Even medieval universities were established to train people...
...boom has not been a one way ride on the gravy train for everybody. An increasing amount of time is being lost in strikes-most recently in the auto, steel-hauling and copper industries. Unemployment is down to 4.1%, from 7% at the beginning of the upsurge, but it has risen in the past year. On Wall Street, the stock market took a toboggan ride last week, with the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeting 31.56 points to a five-month low of 856.62. Though price increases had been held to 1.3% a year for nearly five years, they have averaged...
...Manhattan-bound subway train lurches on its way, long after midnight. Two by two, the passengers come aboard at successive stops: a crabby old Jewish couple, a soldier and his Oklahoma-born buddy with his left arm in a cast, two sets of middle-aged bickerers, a sad-eyed homosexual and the seedy intellectual he is unsuccessfully trying to seduce, a get-Whitey Negro and his worried wife, two love-happy hippies. Grand Hotel on wheels? The Subway of Fools? That, for about the first third of The Incident, seems to be the intent...