Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school-age children who are classified as retarded. In many school jurisdictions the least able of the retarded youngsters are placed in the dead-end category of "uneducable and untrainable" by school psychologists. Once that label is applied to a child, the schools are relieved of their obligation to train...
...prison and on parole tends to obscure the distinctions between relative and absolute freedom and also those between relative and absolute captivity. Freedom is seen in its purest, most desirable form, and captivity, to any degree, becomes contemptible. Yet, there are always checks or brakes on this train of thought. Men are not meant to ride it to the desperate state of mind that is its terminus. There are always checks--almost always...
...their first inspection, visitors will rely on the 80-ft.-high Skyway gondola cars, or the narrow-gauge, coal-burning open-sided train that circles the area. The crowds head for the six theme areas of the Magic Kingdom amusement complex: Mam Street U.S.A., Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, and the not-yet-opened Tomorrowland...
...suggest that the difference between a clock aboard a spacecraft and one on the ground is observational rather than real. It is, he says, an effect similar to that experienced by an observer on a station platform who hears a change in pitch of the whistle of a passing train-when no change has actually occurred...
Passengers were evacuated without mishap at Kendall and the Fire Department asked that the power be shut off between South Station and Harvard so that the blazes could be fought safely. Service was restored at 3:13 p.m. after the fires were extinguished. Another train pushed the disabled train to Harvard where it was removed from service...