Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of two related vicious cycles. Afro-Am is said to be a legitimate field of study, yet the Faculty claims it cannot find anyone to tenure in that subject. This lack of qualified scholars then is cited as the reason for Harvard not being able to train future scholars. The near disappearance this year of the department demands that administrators take action to ensure its continued existence as a viable and vibrant academic department...
Efforts are being made all over to educate bikers about traffic rules and to train motorists in the ways of bikers. In Los Angeles, state and county planners are even contemplating a 2 1/2-mile-long overhead bikeway that would rise above the congested streets around UCLA. But the real culprit on American roads, as conspicuous among cars, cabs and trucks as among cyclists, is an arrogant, scofflaw spirit that sends vehicles -- those with four as well as two wheels -- streaking through red lights and stop signs, just as it tempts pedestrians into habitual jaywalking...
...miles from Manila to Naga, a city of 100,000 people located on the narrow, volcano-filled Bicol peninsula. Early last week that line was dramatically severed as 500 men, dressed in military fatigues and believed to be guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army, hijacked a train bound from Naga to the capital. They commandeered it to the town of Del Gallego and attacked the local constabulary headquarters, killing at least five policemen and three civilians. To cover their rear, the rebels blew up a key railroad bridge and effectively cut off train service between the capital...
...this dramatic turnaround? "We're doing a better job of getting out the message on how well women's colleges train women for careers," asserts Nicole Reindorf, the WCC's associate director. Graduates of women's colleges, she points out, generally outperform their coed counterparts. For instance, a 1985 survey of 5,000 women's school alumnae found that nearly half had earned graduate degrees (vs. one-third for all graduates from coed institutions). Of women listed in Who's Who in America, women's college alums outnumber coed- school graduates by more than 2 to 1. And the bottom...
...most famous of the Lumiere films to be shown tomorrow is "Arrive d'un Train en Gare," which depicts the arrival of a train at the French town of Ciotat. When the film was first shown, members of the audience believed the train would actually hit them...