Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rear Window. Probably the most difficult thing for me is to choose only one Hitchcock film. So many are fabulous, especially from the 50s (North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Strangers on a Train). But this little shown film with Jimmy Steward and Grace Kelley is my favorite. It combines all of Hitchcock's strengths: suspense, great plotting, complex direction, and an ability to force the audience to discover its dark and immoral sides by involving it with characters engaged in unsavory activities (here, voyeurism). Yet none of his other films go so far in lending a sinister touch to mundane...
...protests to problems indirectly caused or aggravated by the war, such as racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...
...adoption of rules requiring newly constructed tankers to have double bottoms. Such a construction feature is now mandatory on all craft carrying chemicals and liquified, flammable gas, and, according to a federal law enforcement officer, would have prevented the oil spill in the Delaware grounding. "It is," said Train, "damned hard to move anything in these international forums...
...waters, and accuse the service of moving too slowly to use this power. "The Coast Guard has been almost negligent," claims Jeffrey Knight, legislative director for Friends of the Earth. "It has been since 1972, and that's a long time to twiddle your thumbs." Environmental Protection administrator Russell Train is more charitable. Says he: "I think the Coast Guard is essentially conservative...
...federal law that restricts the number of foreign medical school graduates who can train in U.S. hospitals may "clobber" many smaller hospitals that depend on the graduates to fill many of their resident physician posts, the director of Harvard's main teaching hospital said yesterday...