Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Virtually all experts agree that more must be done to train and retrain potential employees. Many companies are instituting expensive in-house education programs to fill their more sophisticated openings. But some manpower specialists see a strong need to reinstate federal job-training funds that have been slashed by 58% during the Reagan Administration's tenure, to $3.3 billion annually. In some congressional circles there is tentative discussion about raising additional revenues to pay for the retraining of workers dislocated by foreign imports. But legislative action is not expected anytime soon...
...hard-drinking hobo, fortified wines like Thunderbird and Night Train are the beverages of choice. On Jan. 1, the city of Portland, Oregon, with firm backing from Mayor Bud Clark, banned the sale of the firewater in the Skid Road area downtown. Trouble is, the street people began migrating to tonier uptown neighborhoods to buy their favorite drinks, unnerving well- heeled shoppers and merchants...
...that he missed his own graduation and they couldn't even figure out what was wrong with him when they finally saw him. Then just a few months later he went to a doctor in private practice who knew instantly that he had been run over by a freight train. You do not hear stories like that from people who were smart enough to get decent medical care in the first place...
...likely group of targets consists of communications facilities: radio-TV stations, ground-to-satellite stations and dishes, main telephone terminals. Knocking them out would, in theory, virtually cut Libya off from the outside world, at least for a time. Other potential targets offer both rewards and drawbacks. Hitting two training camps for terrorists that are known to operate near Tripoli and Benghazi would most closely fit the punishment for terrorism to the crime of inciting and supporting it. But the camps are thought to be empty right now, and when occupied they are also heavily used to train young recruits...
...against surrounding enemies. He sympathizes with Palestinians who feel they have had to pay for the persecution of Europe's Jews, but also believes that the Arabs are the victims of the vanity and fantasies of their leaders. Above all, he appreciates the sweeping drama of the return: "a train of efforts and events so strange and unprecedented as to appear to some almost miraculous and to others literally miraculous...