Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave of revulsion and anger swept The Netherlands last week after terrorists seized more than 150 hostages in an effort to force the Dutch government to accept their revolutionary demands. The hostages included 55 passengers of an express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still...
Part of the answer, at least for poorly educated youths, is in government-sponsored training programs or on-the-job subsidies to employers. The Canadian government helps pay for nine weeks of summer work for young people. France is working with private business on a program to create 400,000 jobs for youths. Italy is about to launch a $400 million job subsidy program. Britain pays employers about $17 a week for 26 weeks to train young people...
...there are hardly any such subsidies, although some jobs are provided under various federal and local programs at the minimum wage of $2.30 an hour. That is too high, say critics, to encourage employers to train workers; the minimum should be reduced during training periods, perhaps subsidized by Government work "scholarships" to young people. They would receive grants from the Government, then turn the money over to employers who would use it to finance on-the-job training...
...Harvard in general, and where all the good restaurants were in Cambridge. By the time they pulled into Harvard Square, Adrian was amazed at how well Louise could make small talk, and thought it remarkable just how interested these guys could be in her roommate after one three-minute train ride...
...with a wayward child without brooking any resistance. Protestations of innocence were no good anymore, and although physical violence did not seem likely, I thought it best not to remain in such a plainly hostile environment. The subway ride home was more than humiliating; every derelict in the "F" train looked like he was about to approach me with a papal bull of excommunication...