Word: trained
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...Peace Corps, which fits into the system directly under the extensionists, has been putting pressure on the top level to train the farmers in accounting and agronomy so that they can assume an increasing amount of power. Although their pressure has begun to have incremental effects, it appears doubtful that the cooperatives will ever be managed by the farmers themselves...
...illustrations include fine, haunting photos of a hungry Kansas farm family in front of their sod hut in the 1880s, and of young, self-consciously warlike Confederate soldiers posing in their first uniforms. There are paintings of a wagon train, a cancerous color photo of cars and advertising signs turning a Tucson street into the seventh circle of hell, and an oddly cheerful painting by a 19th century Chinese of George Washington ascending to heaven...
...other lecturers participating in the symposium were Harold Cruse, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, Nathan I. Huggins, a professor of history at Columbia University, and Albert L. Murray, author of the soon-to-be-published novel "Train Whistle Guitar...
Information presented in the lawsuit also sheds light on why Middle South has no blacks in managerial positions. AP&L has a "summer cadet" program in which it hires engineering students during summers--an ideal way to recruit and train future high-level employees. All of the summer cadets hired so far have been white, while unskilled jobs as summer laborers have gone to both blacks and whites. Middle South obviously can't just wait for black executives to come to them, and they obviously aren't doing much recruiting at black colleges, where there would no doubt be plenty...
Fans supporting the Western Conference contender will stream into Toronto to rampage through the town just before the game and rally the support troops. This practice dates back to 1948, when 250 boosters of the Calgary Stampeders chartered a 16-car Canadian Pacific train for the trip to Toronto, bringing with them 16 horses. The visitors rode through downtown hotel lobbies in a wild stampede. Eventually, the game itself will take place before a packed and spirited crowd of 36,000 at Canadian National Exhibition stadium...