Word: apprenticeship
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...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
EDUCATION AND JOBS. While Tsongas worries about the cost of capital, Clinton's focus is on human resources. His coherent, systematic approach to improving education at all levels revolves around apprenticeship programs for those who choose not to attend college and a universal loan program that would guarantee a college education to all who want one, in return for an extended repayment schedule or a period of national service. Clinton has also developed a worker- retraining plan that would force companies to spend equally for this purpose. Current worker-training schemes are virtually useless, he notes correctly. "Roughly...
Frederic organizes the police force to fight against the pirates but is confronted by Ruth and the Pirate King (Anton Quist) before the attack. They tell him he was born on February 29 and has only truly celebrated five birthdays. Since his apprenticeship was to conclude after 21 birthdays, he feels obligated to serve the pirates until...
...play opens with Frederic's (remarkable tenor Joel Derfner) 21st birthday, marking the official end of his legal apprenticeship to a band of pirates. His nursemaid, Ruth, (a clear and comic Diana Graham) had mistaken his father's request of "pilot" for "pirate" training and, now that Frederic is free, he seeks to destroy piracy...
...real stress in the sciences is research," he says. "Science is very much like a trained apprenticeship. There is a much more intimate connection because students and you work together...