Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosive growth that has added faculty and research centers in areas as diverse as poverty, the press and the environment--and executive programs which train everyone from new mayors to national security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
...people were run over by a train while manning a barricade near the Shanghai railway station Tuesday night. Shanghai radio said angry crowds set the train ablaze and beat 21 railway security officials who tried to put the fire...
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other top officials rushed to the scene. It was the third serious train accident in the Soviet Union in a year...
...most recent serious train accident in the Soviet Union, two freight trains, one laden with propane, collided May 20 in the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan. An ensuing explosion and fire killed five people, and destroyed factories and 13 houses. Since the Arzamas accident, the Soviet press has published a number of articles complaining about lax railway safety...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...