Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Akron, the electorate decided by a margin of 700 votes out of nearly 60,000 cast to buy five ambulances and train paramedics in the fire department. The department had earlier refused an order by the city council to pay for the training of the paramedics, so the council put the isssue on the ballot...
...when the real problem is unemployment? You ignore the pathology of the slums, the self-destruction and hostility.' " His reply: "While we are rebuilding the South Bronx, we will have an opportunity to do something about jobs. Are there federal facilities which can be located there? Can we train people for employment in construction? Can we induce industries which serve Government or which sell overseas and could assemble here to build plants on the East River waterfront? Since the city and state can offer low-cost financing for buildings and equipment, tax incentives, low-cost power and other benefits...
...goal of the present crackdown on dissent is to reassure the right-wing verkrampte (narrow-minded) members of Vorster's National Party. To foreigners, the gruff Prime Minister may seem to be nothing more than a formidable reactionary. "He travels in an ox wagon always one length behind the train of history," a ranking British official observed last year. But Vorster is a pragmatist by comparison with many of his Afrikaner colleagues in government and a very shrewd politician as well. Thus, the new constitution could be interpreted as a concession to white moderates, including the verligte (enlightened) wing...
Barbara Seaman, author of Free and Female, goes further: "The backlash is against casual sex because a lot of people were hurt. It was as if there was a train gradually carrying us away from Victorian morality, but then suddenly in the '60s and '70s the train became a runaway, and a lot of passengers were injured. Now the brakes are starting to be repaired...
...grew up together, and when I was 15, we went to London by ourselves to train." Regoczy says. "Andras is very protective though. He takes care of me. Even now, he wouldn't let me go to London alone...