Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That and one other experience convinced us that, even though about 70 percent of the Burmese economy is black-market and the government often appears hopelessly out of touch with society, people take it seriously. We went to the Rangoon train station to try to get a Burmese to buy us train tickets instead of doing it at Tourist Burma at the official rate. The same people who wanted to buy our dollars, Walkmen, cassettes, cosmetics, T-shirts and even underwear, wouldn't touch our money to break that rule. It's as though the government tacitly cedes certain areas...
...usual $55 annual fee on the cards. Citicorp will still receive payments, however, from restaurants and stores that accept the plastic. Like all Diners Club members, the soldiers will receive a $150,000 travel life insurance policy. It will cover them when they take a commercial bus, plane or train, but not when they go into combat...
...Then you may also recall that despite a nearly total absence of musical talent, David Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz, the Monkees, confounded the critics and rock snobs by turning out a fresh, funny show and some major hits, including I'm a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville. Now three of the four -- minus Nesmith, a film producer who, says Dolenz, "isn't into it anymore" -- are on a 100-city comeback tour, playing their familiar tunes and performing their antique routines to SRO houses and screaming fans. The big difference from the old days, Dolenz...
...Lady of Victory Church was completely Catholic and performed by two priests, although there was no nuptial Mass. Caroline, dressed in a white silk organza gown with cloverleaf appliques designed by Carolina Herrera, arrived in a white limousine with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, who helped her with her train and patted her back encouragingly before they entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister...
...elaborate conference was designed to "train, equip and encourage" others who, like Graham, travel to spread the Christian message. North Americans and Europeans provided the majority of the instruction but cheerfully performed the routine chores as well, ushering and operating the weapon scanners that are now fixtures at large European gatherings. How-to workshops offered tips on everything from prison projects to street preaching to the use of drama, with continual emphasis upon methods that would be practical, efficient and inexpensive...