Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless one believes that gentlemen shouldn't open each other's mail, it's meaningless to assert that the CIA intrinsically is an immoral body. America, like any other country, needs to gather information about other nations and train analysts to assess the collected data. It's that simple...
...other possible argument, that Harvard and its faculty should not be linked with the CIA simply because it is a government agency, is equally facile. Such links are rampant all over the University. Incredibly, the majority implicitly asserts that it is morally permissible for the K-School to train Defense Department colonels to use nuclear weapons more "effectively" and not for some professors to assess how policy-makers utilize intelligence information...
...most go-getting New Age entrepreneurs is Chris Majer, 36, president of SportsMind, Inc., based in Seattle. As the corporate name indicates, Majer originally worked mainly on athletic training, though his current clients include not only AT&T but also the U.S. Army. Majer started his military efforts in 1982 with an eight-week, $50,000 training program at Fort Hood in Texas. Traditional calisthenics were replaced by a holistic stretching-warm-up-aerobics-cool-down routine. Soldiers practiced visualizing their combat tasks. The results in training test scores were apparently so good that the Army expanded SportsMind's assignment...
...spectacle of empty train stations and streets piled high with uncollected garbage belied the country's proud status as the world's fifth largest economy -- which Italy claims to have achieved after overtaking Britain. Indeed, the heady optimism of just a year ago has been dampened by plummeting exports, rising inflation (currently an annual 5.3%) and the threat of a return to the political instability of the past...
...program is ending now because we're really ahead of schedule, Jake Smith, associate dean of the College of Communications. The school was expecting to take 18 months to train the resistance members, but the project actually required less than a year, Smith said...