Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price increases and wanted only to pop off at the company. To get the transportation debate on track, Arco's admen resorted to some minor hokum. They introduced TV and print audiences to two fictional idea contributors played by professional actors: "Juan Martinez," who proposed a 190-m.p.h. train, and "Amy Farrell," who suggested truck-drawn land ferries that would carry cars between cities...
...Radcliffe last year, but dropped out in the fall and went home to California to just do nothing for the first time since she was 12--the first time she hadn't been in school or working out regularly or both. Then she came back in the spring to train at the Eastern Development Camp, where she met Maggie and Nancy, and in June she won the Nationals in a single scull. Now she was looking up at Daig with an anxious expression in her dark, moody eyes...
...absence from her job selling computers until September--but she has money in the bank and a lot of options. Maybe she'll take a trip. The Harvard Business School has accepted her for next year and given her $7000, but she couldn't go to school and train at the same time. So maybe she'll defer admission--if she keeps rowing...
...Business School sponsors several varies programs to train both middle and top-level executives in both general or more specialized managerial skills...
This season's most agreeable literary game is the counterfeiting of Victorian novels. From Brian Moore (The Great Victorian Collection) to Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery), no artificer plays the game more entertainingly than the writer who calls herself Leonie Hargrave. The pseudonym, notes the publisher coyly, "may be said to be the Maiden Name of an author both prolific and much praised for work in other modes...