Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, officials of the Nixon Administration had been forecasting an imminent drop in interest rates-and encountering growing skepticism. By mid-March, Treasury Under Secretary Charls Walker resignedly told the Senate Finance Committee: "It's just like the Long Island Rail Road-if you wait for the train long enough, it's bound to arrive." Last week it finally did. New York's Irving Trust Co. led major U.S. banks in cutting their "prime" business-loan rate by half a point...
...learn what U.S. schools have ignored: black history and culture, the sometimes elusive content of black studies programs, which are now emerging at hundreds of U.S. colleges. Some courses emphasize a traditional, scholarly approach to such subjects as Africa in world politics. Others are action-oriented, designed to train young blacks for work in the ghettos. Although the results vary widely, the general idea is to foster a sense of black pride and roots that young blacks now consider essential to other kinds of learning...
...train and a bellows huffing in the dark. Lust caught in his throat and he hummed and throbbed while Merilee, the cat now with the lutebright eyes, meowed and meowed...
...tank just before the loaded van was weighed. The report cites the estimate of a former manager of a moving company that at least half of the people who moved in 1969 were overcharged. Similarly, the commission disregarded travelers' interests by "presiding over the funeral" of the passenger train. When three Southwestern states protested the downgrading of service on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited, the commission mulled over the question for 41 months, then decided, against the judgment of most outside experts, that it had no power to do anything...
...accounting, which has replaced physics and aerospace engineering as the specialty most sought by corporate recruiters. Michigan State University has already placed 250 June accounting graduates. At the University of Texas, accounting firms are recruiting in the law school and among liberal-arts undergraduates. "They're willing to train anybody with an interest in the work," says a placement officer. Starting salaries for new accounting graduates average $10,000 a year...