Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerable social weight into emotional power. The art is one of indirection, of inescapable conclusions drawn from shadowy evidence. Describing people watching in The Summer Farmer, Cheever captures his own method: "It is true of even the best of us that if an observer can catch us boarding a train at a way station; if he will mark our faces, stripped by anxiety of their self-possession; if he will appraise our luggage, our clothing, and look out of the window to see who has driven us to the station; if he will listen to the harsh or tender things...
Moving with the force of a runaway freight, a strike by railroad clerks swept the country last week and, before it ended, seriously snarled most of the nation's train traffic and threatened to derail much of the economy. If nothing else, the four-day ruckus showed just how dependent the U.S. still is on its rail system-and how quickly it can be disrupted by a single union...
Life clearly has a lesson in store for Haye; but when it comes, it is particularly senseless and cruel. A boy idly throws a rock at a train; a window smashes and Haye, sitting behind it, is blinded...
...chief of operations, who was openly contemptuous of Somoza for having capitulated to the Sandinistas at the National Palace last month, died when the plane he was piloting crashed near the Costa Rican border. Killed with Alegrett were three of half a dozen foreign mercenaries employed by Somoza to train the guard. One of these was an American known in Managua as Mike the Mercenary. When news of the death of the most hated guard officer spread through Managua's Intercontinental Hotel, few people mourned. "Great! Wonderful!" shouted one woman. "The bastard is dead...
Mobil has been in South Africa for 80 years, but it has hired most of its 1,326 nonwhite employees (out of a total of 2,961) during the past eight. It has also striven to train and promote nonwhites. Now most of the supervisory jobs at the Mobil refineries in Cape Town and Durban are held by nonwhites...