Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read these reports and warnings, and almost canceled a trip I had planned to Cornwall last weekend. I was going for the beaches, cliffs and seaside towns, a break from the dirty city air. The reports made me think I would have to stand during the six hour train ride, push through crowds on tiny streets and fight for a spot on the sand. But I was fixated on Cornwall, and left for the coast with one of my friends...
...next day, as I sat comfortably on the train, I realized that the warnings had been for naught. The train's route ran alongside the A30 highway, which had been opened especially to accommodate eclipse traffic. We waved to a happy woman in a silver BMW convertible who was speeding along the highway with no other cars in sight. There was a jubilant mood among the other passengers in our car. They downed wine and beer and talked excitedly of their plans to soak up some rays before the eclipse...
...more representative representative of public feeling on this issue is New York's Carolyn McCarthy, whom gun violence brought into politics when her husband was killed and her son grievously wounded by a crazed shooter on a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993. McCarthy made an emotional, sensible and ultimately ineffectual speech in the House in an effort to get a stronger measure passed...
...Miss America Heather Whitestone McCallum testifying that their most important relationship was with God and praising a book called Power for Living. The ads ran about 50 times a day on CNN alone; print versions showed up in TIME and other magazines and on the walls of the A train Walters took to work. They were mysterious. They bore the name of no known ministry but merely the words Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation and an 800 number for ordering a free booklet. "I kept seeing it and seeing it," Walters says. "And one day I just thought...
...spirit as it continues to face challenges. The biggest hurdle for the company is a transition from analog to digital technology. "So much of the quality of work depends on how people get along together," says Adlink CEO Charles Thurston. "We realized the more we can find good people, train them and get them to stay, the better our company will do." Thurston's view reflects a modern economic reality: teamwork is an infinitely renewable resource that will never go out of date--so long as you work creatively...