Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably wildly exaggerated. He has been seen carrying a gold-plated handgun and keeps a pet leopard, said to wear a gold collar studded with diamonds, near his side at his ranch in the Beni. In interviews with journalists, Suarez has boasted that he has hired Libyan "experts" to train his security force and that his ranchland retreats are defended by missile-carrying aircraft. He also likes to buy newspaper space to lecture his countrymen on the corruption in their government...
...years Judaism's Conservative branch struggled over whether women should become rabbis. Reform Jews, more liberal, have ordained women since 1972, and 71 are now rabbis. But the Conservatives warily delayed, until in 1983 the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary voted to train and ordain women. Last week, with the first female seminarian about to graduate, the cycle was completed when the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, announced it would admit to membership anyone ordained by the seminary, male or female...
...Administration argues that Amtrak is a prime candidate for the ax because it carries only 2% of long-haul passenger traffic (vs. 86% for airlines and 12% for buses). Moreover, Dole maintains, the railroad is a gravy train for middle- and upper-income passengers. A survey of riders in the Northeast showed that 55% had incomes of $30,000 or more...
...Amtrak officials. "It's really ridiculous," said Ross Capon, executive director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers. Amtrak executives argued that shutting down the 23,600-mile system could cost more than running it, at least in the short term. The line has $3.1 billion in assets, including train cars and stations, that Amtrak officials say would be worth almost nothing if passenger service becomes extinct. In addition, more than 25,000 workers would demand some $2.1 billion in severance...
With their born-again efficiency, U.S. freight railroads no doubt will be profitably hauling goods into the 21st century. But the day of judgment for the passenger train has arrived. Unless Congress decides to help keep Amtrak rolling, the only long-haul rail passengers left in America may be the hobos who ride the boxcars...