Word: trained
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Instead of sweeping beams, the rival British MLS uses a sequence of signals broadcast along arrays of vertical and horizontal antennas. Just as a passenger on a railroad station platform hears a high-pitched whistle as the train approaches and a low-pitched one after it passes by, the approaching aircraft's computer senses an increase in frequency of the radio signals from the horizontal antennas when the aircraft is on one side of the electronic funnel's center line. When it is on the other, a drop in frequency occurs. A similar Doppler shift...
...dance companies, the U.S. now has about 850 in all, compared with some 450 only five years ago. But the key to ballet's future is the growth of professional companies, which not only train new talent but also new teachers. There are now 55 such companies, v. 35 five years ago, and two of the fastest-growing new entries are in middle-sized cities...
...Gerard terminates AIP funding he will "cut adrift" ten doctoral candidates and about 15 other students currently enrolled in the program, Ryan said. The eight-year-old Education School program is the only one in the country designed to train Indians in the field of education, he added...
With a steady outlet for his drawings in The New Yorker and the newspaper PM, Steinberg almost at once set out to see the U.S. coast to coast by train. "Driving is no substitute for the view from the sleeping compartment. The window is like a screen. To arrive at a whistle-stop in Arizona and see Indians at the station, even though they don't have feathers?how expected!" It was, in part, a ballet of fables and stereotypes. Steinberg's America, as confirmed by this trip, proved to be as much an invention as it was in Bertolt...
Captain Carl Yastrzemski didn't seem stoned when he took batting practice the next day. With the blind confidence of a speeding freight train, he pummelled each pitch exactly where he said he was going to put it, never seeing a doubt or distraction from the corner...