Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Train and bus travel should prove no less crowded...
...tens of thousands of Boston-area students who will return home this week must face the terrors of the modern world--congested airports, bus terminals, and train stations--before they can re-enact the Thanksgiving day meal...
...last extended bit of warmth I was to receive for much of the day was the train ride to New Haven. I stepped out of the station into a wind chill that would make the most rabid Green Bay Packer-Backer wither...
...after commanding the U.S. Army in Europe from 1967 to '71. His earliest recollections are of horses and Army encampments. He was a small boy, he remembers, living here at Riley, when the bugler blew officers' call at lunchtime one day. His father, a young lieutenant, was on a train two hours later, heading toward Mexico to chase < Pancho Villa with General John J. Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition. "He never had time to change clothes, and we didn't see him again for a year," Polk said. "Fortunately, he had on a good pair of britches, and he still...
Goldsmith can be ruthless in his pursuit of profits. "There is a lot of internal rage in Jimmy," says John Train, a New York financier who knows him well, and Goldsmith himself acknowledges, "When I fight, I fight with a knife." Yet he is rather different from the standard buccaneer. When Ivan Boesky moved uptown from Wall Street in 1985, he rented a suite of offices in the same building that housed Goldsmith's New York headquarters, 630 Fifth Avenue, and then asked for a meeting. "He spent most of his time telling me about all the contributions...