Word: retraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain and relocate workers who lose their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman. Other packers, such as Oscar Mayer, Cudahy...
Back to Infancy. But the human brain, especially in the young, has considerable powers of readjustment and a further capacity for retraining which medicine is now beginning to exploit. After a few days spent mostly in coma. Congrave perked up. His temperature dropped as the inflammation in the brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order...
...some 38% of the Army's inductees were in the lower intelligence brackets (85-95 IQ), partly because students usually get automatic deferments through college and professional school, often miss the draft altogether. To upgrade its manpower, the Army has drastically tightened re-enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits the world over. Moreover, the Pentagon is readying legislation for Congress ensuring that only those men "who have an effective job performance potential" will enter Army ranks through the draft. In the nuclear age, the Army has discovered, even the truck drivers and the supply clerks must...
...orientation toward a program of balanced military preparedness. But a professional army composed of 20-year men, on examination, actually seems more reliable than a conscript army. Such an army would be less costly and more effective, Stevenson feels, because it would not be crippled by the need to retrain completely every two years. In addition, a highly mobile professionalized land force would be better able to cope with the problems of limited wars like Korea without the constant pull of the mother vote trying to bring the boys home...
...Turnaround. In about nine years the Navy has tried to retrain 48,000 problem personnel, succeeded in restoring 14,000 to duty-enough to man four big aircraft carriers. Last week the Elliott psychology project was being studied at the Navy's two other retraining commands, Portsmouth, N.H. and Norfolk, Va., to see whether this rate can be bettered...