Word: apprenticeship
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...most controversial passages, the letter urges "a major new policy commitment" to reduce joblessness from its present 7.4%, to 3% to 4%, a level not seen since the late 1960s. To achieve the goal, the draft proposes such measures as Government-funded jobs programs and expanded private training and apprenticeship efforts. It strongly supports unions and appeals for a strengthening of labor laws to protect workers...
That orgy of death and disorder pointed up as nothing else the daunting task faced by India's new Prime Minister, Indira's son Rajiv, 40, who determinedly assumed a burden for which scarcely three years of political apprenticeship had little prepared him. After ceremoniously igniting his mother's funeral pyre, Rajiv met with a score of foreign dignitaries who had attended the funeral, including U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz...
Where to from here? While we hope that Rajiv Gandhi learned much in the way of political skill during his two year apprenticeship under his mother, we also hope that he has vision enough to see the error of her ways. He should proceed as planned with the January elections and prove that the democratic process is alive and not endangered by nepotism. The future of a united India depends not on the extension of family rule but the health of democratic institutions. In the past these institutions have displayed a remarkable resilience. India weathered two years of emergency rule...
Canadian Writer Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Buddy Kravitz) is known for witty portraits of his native land, most recently in his book Home Sweet Home. Here he takes a typically affectionate look at his country's elections...
...part, this freedom stemmed from the specific interests of a diverse faculty, Putnam said. It reflected "the traditional method of training graduate students--known as apprenticeship--in which each student would learn all that one faculty member knew...