Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparation for the Carnival season, members of the ski squad have been taking hour-and-a-half trips to Pat's Peak in Henniker, N.H., where they train along with other teams at a ski academy under a cooperative coaching system. The Crimson rents floor space in a dormitory at the mountain, which has helped throw the team into debt...
...cocaine distribution capital of America today is probably Jackson Heights, a quiet, middle-class residential section of Queens in New York City, within walking distance of La Guardia Airport. Despite the elevated train tracks over Roosevelt Avenue, the neighborhood is neat and clean and, except for those in the drug trade, safe. At present 200,000 Colombian immigrants live there, most of them working in garment factories or running small legitimate businesses. But in the early '70s, half a dozen Colombian gangs, a network of perhaps 1,000, established the connection there...
Such questioning deserves more rebuttal than the usual cracks about 20/20 hindsight. Journalists aren't expected to anticipate train wrecks or assassinations. But a simple test of their performance is: Are readers or listeners taken by surprise by events that were foreseeable? The Iran coverage meets this test favorably, in that any well-informed reader for the past year has been told all about riots, corruption, torture and discontent. The press, however, can be faulted, particularly in the earlier stages, for describing the opposition, in the simplicity of news bulletins and snippet coverage on TV, as "an unlikely coalition...
...correct the accounting problems, the Med School created a committee to revise and enforce new accounting standards and train the administrative assistants who do the bookkeeping...
...clouds rimming the volcano are seasonal, limited to spring and summer; scientists postulate that they may be formed when ice condenses from the atmosphere as it cools while moving up the crater's flanks. Hovering beyond, at the upper left corner of the photograph, is a "cloud train," a common formation on the downwind side of mountains...