Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, sitting in the seminar room where I worked, I thought of the NIMBY folder as the narrow-minded folder. All these people were protesting against what everyone agreed were necessities. They just didn't want to have to be personally involved. "Please solve society's problems," seemed to be the attitude. "Just do it where I don't have...
...eight biennial Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly Elected Mayors, cosponsored by the IOP and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is trying to provide City Hall rookies with this kind of knowledge that can only come from someone who has been there. The program includes discussions of everything from ethics and dealing with reporters to running a police department and dealing with natural disaster...
Robinson said of the seminar, "The timing's excellent because it allowed me, at a time when I was very receptive, to receive timely and pertinent information about how to be a mayor...
...with the most up-to-date crime news from around the country. Explains network President Billy Prince, a former Dallas police chief: "There's a terrible lack of knowledge among police. Information is changing so fast that it's impossible to keep up by sending men to a boring seminar. We offer cost-effective bits and pieces...
...addition to the flaws in the University'sprocedures for helping victims, the problem isalso increased by the fact that Harvard studentsare naive about rape on campus, said Liz M. Clyma'90, who attended the seminar...