Word: trained
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Cathy A. Connett, a second-year MBA candidate, describes her experience as supervisor of a Duncan Hines packing plant. "I had taken great pains to convince the men I was working with that I could do a competent job--I'd specifically requested that the workers train me so that they could get to know me personally and I could earn their respect...One of the women who followed me made a point of correcting the men when they called her a girl instead of a woman. Then when they referred to me as a girl I knew they were...
...most Europeans, train travel has been a way of life. It is fast, efficient and cheap. European air travel, on the other hand, has been fast, efficient and expensive. National air carriers divide up the market and, lacking stiff competition, charge pretty much what they please. Until last month, a 213-mile Paris-London flight cost twice as much as a 205-mile New York-Washington trip...
Befitting an event commemorating Harvard's expanded commitment to train professional public servants, the political elite of Harvard, Massachusetts and Camelot were in attendance. So were thousands of students, some on one side of the barricades gawking at celebrities, some on the other protesting the naming of the school's library after America's most effective corporate booster of racial oppression in South Africa...
What has Somoza done for Washington in exchange? Aside from repressing any domestic movement for popular power, the Somozas have had a strong regional anti-communist consciousness. In 1954, for example, the elder Somoza lent his private estate for CIA training of right-wing Guatemalan exiles led by Castillo Armas, and allowed U.S. bombers supporting the exiles to take off from Nicaragua. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Somozas began to develop tighter relations with right-wing Cuban exiles who, with the CIA, were plotting to overthrow the Castro government. In 1961, the Somozas' private lands were used...
Nevertheless, the technical competence of this production cannot compensate for the actors' stiffness in a play whose success depends on skillful performances. Acting workshops and classes all over the country use scenes from Hellman's play to train budding thespians. For her play is a true actor's play, crying out for sophisticated character interpretation, development, and execution. It just isn't there...