Word: training
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...women were cowering at the other end of the car. According to Goetz, he asked them if they were all right. When a conductor entered the car, Goetz asserted that the wounded men had tried to rip him off. The train came to a stop before reaching the Chambers Street station. Goetz slipped out, ran along the darkened tracks, and then clambered onto the Chambers Street platform and up the stairs into the street...
...TREN SUBTERRANEO ES PELIGROSA. The sign appears in nearly every subway car along New York City's 230-mile system. Literally translated from Spanish, it means, "The subterranean train track is dangerous." Though it refers to the electrified third rail and not to the dangers inside the trains, few New Yorkers would argue with its broader implications. Fewer still, however, have seen the sign recently. It has been obscured in most cars by coat after coat of indecipherable graffiti...
...urinates against a wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from the blackness of the tunnel beyond. Smoke from a fire on a distant track wafts through the station. A crowded train from the Upper West Side sits simmering on another track for 20 minutes while static from a broken speaker drowns out the conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Long Islander. "Even...
...known for some time. While the Soviets have so far stored their SS-X-24s in "garages" easily detectable by U.S. spy satellites, they are experimenting with a mobile version that can be raised and fired from a railway launcher disguised to look like part of an ordinary freight train. The smaller SS-X-25, which has a single warhead comparable to the proposed U.S. Midgetman, will be transported and launched from flatbed trucks...
...fall of 1946, soon after the Red Arrow train brought him to Detroit, he realized that sales, not engineering, was his truest calling. Very well, they said to the upstart, you can sell: trucks, in Chester, Pa. Undaunted, he sold and sold and sold. During the next nine years, he hustled up the regional sales ranks. Finally, weeks after his marriage in 1956, Iacocca got called back to headquarters as a marketing manager under the chief "whiz kid," Ford Vice President Robert McNamara. Iacocca officially indulged his ^ love of the punchy phrase. Earlier that year he had devised...