Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood among 3,000 hometown supporters gathered in front of the restored Victorian train station in Wilmington, Del., was as buoyant as the red, white and blue balloons waiting to be unleashed to the sky. Yet there was Joe Biden, gambling that he could pump up the crowd even higher while challenging his middle-class neighbors with the specter of a "nation at risk" from materialist values, declining industries, drug abuse, inadequate schools and kids abandoned to poverty. "It is the plight of our children that is the moral test of our time," he roared in a voice that bounced...
...January of 1985, Bok decided to try the elusive ethicist one more time, spurred by the recommendations of an advisory committee which advocated instituting a University-wide ethics program to train young ethics teachers at Harvard's professional schools. And this time Thompson, who was on leave in California, accepted Bok's invitation and a lifetime post as Whitehead professor of political philosophy at the School of Government...
...more and more people have blamed Harvard for failing to train the next generation of leaders, as national scrutiny of ethics increased after the Iran-contra scandals and the Wall Street insider trading cases. "Whatever the ills of the society are, somebody will find a way to relate them to Harvard," says Allison, adding that, in New York and Washington, Harvard is perceived as churning out graduates who are interested only in "getting rich quick...
...central problem, as the committee defined it, was to train professionals with a background in both the culture of their respective professions and in the basics of ethical theory. "The committee concluded unanimously that there were very few people who were both well educated in the history and philosophy of ethics and who had also absorbed the culture of a profession, and we tried to address that problem," Rupp says. "We wanted to prepare people best suited to do either...
...describing magnetically levitated superfast trains as one of the benefits of high-temperature superconductors, you fail to recognize U.S. accomplishments in the area of fast trains. The speed record for a railway vehicle (steel wheels running on steel rails) is 255 m.p.h., set at the U.S. Department of Transportation test center in August 1974. Then, in discussing Japan's magnetically levitated train, you say its speed can be attributed to the lack of friction. You ignore the fact that at high speeds much of the resistance to forward motion is air resistance, which affects levitated trains too. Finally, you state...