Word: trained
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Descending from ship or train or plane, with a minimum of immigration fuzzbuzz, the F.F. sees the world's most intensively cultivated fields, wheat and rice and sorghum and countless vegetables, pressing to the edge of every road, rail and airport runway. He sees the back streets of cities, busy from dawn to dusk, where every human activity save copulation is conducted alfresco. Then occurs the gee whiz Instamatic Blur. The people smiling and waving and clapping from city sidewalks and country lanes. The painfully hand-inscribed WARMLY WELCOMING boards. The impression, away from every preprogrammed and official event...
Conrail has managed to consolidate the 285 labor contracts that it inherited into only 35, and it has gained union approval to cut the crew on a freight train from four to three. Says Charles Swin-burn, a Department of Transportation rail expert: "If you had taken the best railroad management in the country-the Southern Railway's, for instance-I don't know whether they would have done anything differently from the Conrail management...
REMEMBER THE LAST Agatha Christie movie? You know, where all the people on the train had it out for this rich guy, who gets killed, and the great French detective goes through the suspects one by one trying to figure out which one did it, and it turns out it wasn't just one who did it, it was all of them. Remember? Well, keep that basic structure in mind and change some of the details and you've got the latest Agatha Christie movie, Death on the Nile, an enjoyable if formulaic story set on a cruise down...
...Annual President's report of 1973-74, Bok focused on the goals--or "mission" as Kennedy School people like to say--of Harvard's school of government: to train a "new profession" of public servants to hold responsible positions in the government...
...team will train at the Caparo swimming clulb near San Juan. Juan Fayer '80, a member of the 1976 Puerto Rican Olympic swimming team, has been a member at the Caparo club and will introduce the Harared studens to Puerto rican swimmers, Walsh said...