Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pays less than the unemployment compensation ($95 a week) available to a skilled worker who is out of a job. But according to New York State Labor Commissioner Philip Ross, a more important reason is that most advertised jobs require some skills, and high schools "don't train enough people for work that is available...
...first things that owners look at in choosing supertanker skippers is family background. Explains Meurs: "The men to run the top ships must come from super-tidy, disciplined families who teach their sons to live by the book-no sloppiness, no boozing, a solid family life." Many captains are trained, for tuition costs starting at $3,000 a week, at one of three supertanker schools in Holland and France. At Meurs' school, the Dutch Institute for Navigational Training, nearly 100 students a year go through a seamanship course run by a 17-member staff that is headed...
...bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry: "Woman, 38, with moral principles, dowry of 200,000 drachmas cash and 300 olive trees, wants someone of 45-50 years...
...Administrator Russell Train acknowledges that the report contains "some valid criticisms and very good suggestions" and insists that his agency will tighten up its reregistration procedures. The EPA is also planning to take a closer look at other pesticide products, and last week moved against a compound called EPN, which was developed in 1949 and is chemically similar to leptophos. Reason for the agency's unaccustomed haste: a study by an independent researcher indicating that EPN, which attacks the nervous system in much the same way as leptophos, is even more toxic than its close relative...
...confab was interrupted by an incessant stream of phone calls from down-at-the heels disco acts. "Hello, Mr. Murdoch, this is Gladys Knight." The voice was unmistakable. She was muttering something about her new solo effort--"Midnight Train to Canberra," I think she said--and how the Pips were a thing of the past. Rupe told her to forget music for the moment: "Honey, I've got bigger things planned for you...Ever hear of New West...