Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millionaire, America's class structure wasn't significantly changed during his tenure either. But Mora gives his audience a glimpse of the millions who gained employment through F.D.R.'s pet programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration. We see a policeman sternly advising an itinerant freight train rider to "Return where you came from and collect relief and find a government...
...same with me traveling this way. Some decisions have to be made by telephone and without gestures and eyecontact, it's a different feeling." Scarf's family will probably move to Cambridge during the second semester. "I do a lot of reading for courses on the train," she says...
When discussing history, however, Smith is on better ground. Since World War II and especially after the Soviet Sputnik launching in 1958, the government and big business foundations have poured money into selected schools. They have tailored their gifts to expansion of pure and applied science programs that train scientists for corporate research and development, mainly involving military contracts. Since 1945, only two per cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize...
...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...
...believe we should have training schools to train people in a skill. With a skill they can find a job and with a job they can begin their slow climb out of the lower levels...