Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tide has turned. Today it is almost obligatory for a city to have a fine old theater or train station or office building that has been saved, spiffed up and put back to good, if not necessarily its original use -- a building that 20 years ago would have been pulled down without a second thought. Buying paperbacks and chocolate-chip cookies in what used to be a warehouse and watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever...
Though Verdier agreed that Dukakis's national plan will increase revenue, he said the actual implementation will require several years to train new employees and raise a larger budget to pay for staffers and improved IRS facilities...
...minds, Queen Acid, begging, declaring, forcing us to recognize that the black spot affixed near the apex of the road, the dot at the edge of infinity, has no, not four or 20 but a human two arms and two human legs--not far from reality, now, but the train is leaving, and the dancing vortex of consciousness in the back seat, the Ginsburg #1, stops his contortions to point like a land-sighting sailor at the topmast and shout--"Human!", and it is so, this desert space contracts in purpose on this lonesome figure and even Ginsburg #2 stirs...
MOST MENTALLY ill don't need the government to come to get them; their needs transcend buildings and beds. What they require is more community care. Employers should have incentives to hire, train and supervise the mentally ill. Day-care facilities, with psychiatric help, medical services and job training, must be more accessible. Now they are few and far apart, and often funding doesn't follow patients to the most convenient facilities...
...arrival was less than auspicious. A freak autumn fog blanketed Moscow's four airports; Shultz, Carlucci and their 110-member traveling party were forced to make the 700-mile journey from Helsinki to the Soviet capital on an overnight train. When they arrived, they knew that even without the unexpected hitch on Star Wars, sticky details on the INF pact still had to be resolved...