Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Train arrives, Illusions dispelled. The subway is the subway after all in fact an amazing resemblance to the old blue carts on the Red Line. Except the seats have cushions. Possibly the only distinction...
Ohio State, with a student population of about 53,000, offers a far wider range of courses than does Harvard, but Fackler didn't feel it was preparing her to go on to law or graduate school. One can major in agriculture, home ec, phys ed or train to be a butcher at Ohio State but courses there are generally taught in large lecture halls and exams are computer scored and multiple choice. "I had to opt to write papers," she says. Studying for courses meant highlighting with felt tip pens and then marking special passages with small colored dots...
...department will train students to take positions in the nuclear engineering industry following graduation and provide the academic groundwork for graduate study in the field. Kent F. Hansen, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT and acting head of the department, said yesterday...
Hansen said that, although the program will not try to train "technicians," graduates of the department will be employable as reactor operators, health physicists, environmental protection officers and on-site nuclear engineers...
With his boxing days on the wane, Wepner, 35, needed no coaxing. For the first time in his career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free...