Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides offering regular courses on the Holocaust, the chosen professor will train graduate students in fields pertaining to scholarly study of the historical event...
...programs are necessary, says Shapiro, "but a new, government-mandated bargain could be struck." A rule of tax policy already holds that when a company provides a tax-free compensation, such as health-care coverage or pension contributions to its employees, it must cover virtually its entire work force. Training is not currently viewed as a tax-free compensation, but it should be. If it were, companies wouldn't be directly compelled to train workers; but if they provided training for some employees (as they do now), they would then have to offer training to all--or lose their...
...extreme & not much noted by the speakers. Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts; but on that day the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded; and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the company, of the men that wore before us the college honors & the laurels of the state--the long winding train reach back into eternity...
...friends, Harvard is but one short train ride on the long journey of life. Soon it will be time to board the train again until the next stop...
...returned from West Point bemused. Unable to reach a consensus on the proper role of the U.N. in world affairs, our group had left the issue out of our final policy paper. The German Fulbright scholar, whom I sat next to on the train back to New York City en route to Cambridge, told me the conference had confirmed all his ugly stereotypes about Americans...