Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot or one-week affair. It must go beyond drugs to teach children how to develop the self-esteem that those tempted by narcotics usually lack and how to deal with strains and tensions without turning to drugs. It must not only tell children to say no but train them to resist peer pressure. And it must be realistic: Booze, for example, candidly tells children that drugs produce a giddy high similar to riding a swing, but he goes on to detail what follows that high...
Programs in public health, such as the one Harvard offers, he said, can help train foreign nationals to manage a country's medical resources more efficiently, he said, although such programs must find the proper balance between covering the medical problems of the United States and the very different ones of developing countries...
...Much of the legal writing is theoretical and not practical, and it is not able to be comprehended by a person of average intelligence," said Griswold, former dean at the Law School. Such an approach ignores the mission to train professionals with practical concerns, he said. Law professors are often mired in theoretical concerns and give little practical guidance to their students, the bulk of whom will be practicing lawyers, he said...
Suppose he was standing beside the town's lone rail track and saw a train coming from the north at 80 m.p.h. and on the same track another train roaring toward him from the south at equal speed. What would he do? The recruit, said Johnson, thought a few seconds, then brightened and responded, "I'd run home and get my brother." The recruiter had never heard that answer, and asked what for. Said the young man: "My brother's never seen a train wreck...
There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days, and nobody seems inclined to do much but ask his brother along for the spectacle. The dismal economic reports this week -- slow growth, housing starts down, deficits unabated -- heightened the foreboding even while the politicians celebrated tax reform and Reagan rode horses at his ranch...