Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With his best school friend he hopped a train westward, as close to the Austrian border as they dared. Twenty miles out they were tipped about police checkpoints ahead. The news was grim: the Russians were storming through the countryside, arresting everyone they could. The two would have to race the Red Army to the border. And since no one would guide them, they gathered the last of their money, the last of their courage, and bought directions from a hunchbacked smuggler who spoke of secret byways the Russians hadn't yet discovered...
Leaders of the military services have 90 days to respond to the panel's recommendations. Nevertheless, Cohen had already made it clear that he opposes separating men and women during basic training. "We're going to train together," he said flatly in September, "because we're going to fight together." Others have already attacked the findings. "You have to start the unit cohesion and the bonding at the beginning," says Army Major Mary Finch, a West Point graduate and helicopter pilot. Senator Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step...
...troublesome as it was, however, the great grape debate did not surprise me. Harvard's activists have periodically conveyed their confusion as to whether the "protest" or the "cause" should be the engine driving the train. When Stich describes the singular disinterest with which the activists seem to approach community service, perhaps she is noticing this phenomenon. Getting "down and dirty" in the trenches, making a positive difference in the lives of the less fortunate has rarely been the priority of the activists. Rather, many simply seem anxious to talk...
Girlando commuted to Harvard from Fitzburgh, Mass., where she lived with her husband and children. She traveled the 100-mile round trip to and from school each day either by train or by car, depending on the weather...
Silbert, who founded the non-profit Center for Women and Enterprise in order to train women to start their own businesses, urged audience members to consider a career in entrepreneurship...