Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have squeezed into the entryway between the doors of car 9132 of the Long Island Rail Road's 5:47 to Syosset, N.Y. At exactly 5:41 p.m. the last seat is taken. At 5:46 the standing room in the aisles is filled. By 5:49, when the train begins its slow, stately crawl from Pennsylvania Station, only two minutes late, the throng in the vestibule has achieved a degree of intimacy known in other places as close dancing. An oldtimer, folded atop his briefcase into a posture he is willing to describe as sitting, observes that...
...normal day only little things go wrong. Like, the train never shows up. Or it shows up, but it is two cars short and you face air where usually there is your seat. Or the train has enough cars, but it stops ten feet away from the spot where, eight times out of ten, it usually stops, which means the doors open in front of the irregulars who have no usual waiting spot. Or all the other doors open, but yours doesn't, and you stand there and watch the car fill up. Or the train is under...
...plastics manufacturer in Yonkers, N. Y. Lukash, a 1964 B-School graduate, says he wanted to help out students when he agreed to let the B-School do a case on his business. "I saw no benefits to the company. What I thought I was doing was helping to train the students," Lukash says...
...year-old Weiland (below, far left) took a two-day train ride from Florida to return to coach a team that included two Olympic gold medallists, the five top scorers in Crimson history and a few former pros. Weiland, a member of the NHL Hall of Fame, led the Harvard program for 21 years before turning over the reins to current coach Bill Cleary '56 (below, far right...
...production of Endgame, Samuel Beckett's 1957 comedy of despair. In his stage directions, the Nobel-prizewinning author specified a parched setting, an empty room with two small windows. Director JoAnne Akalaitis set the action instead in a kind of postapocalyptic subway station, with puddles and a derelict train car. She also added music composed by her ex-husband Philip Glass...