Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Howell subsidiary, are at the trade-school end of the spectrum. A profit-making enterprise, DeVry sells "education for the real world." It is a tough-minded, no-frills outfit with about 30,000 students, enrolled in eleven institutes across the continent, studying for bachelor's, associate's and technician's diplomas in various electronics fields. The school operates twelve months a year in three shifts, morning, afternoon and night. Along with their technical courses, degree students must satisfy some requirements in psychology, English, history and literature. But DeVry makes no bones about the fact that it is preparing people...
...Boston, a 46-year-old medical technician lay dying of acquired immune deficiency syndrome last week. Before he became too ill to speak, he insisted that he did not belong to any of the four high-risk AIDS categories: homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Instead, he blamed his illness on accidentally pricking himself with a needle while taking blood samples at the laboratory where he worked...
...Lecce fell in the first round, to his knees, seemed a delayed response to a hard blow to the spirit. Lecce immediately announced his retirement. "This was going to be my last fight anyway," he said without regret, only a little embarrassed after the T.K.O. Commending Taylor, "a good technician," Lecce confessed he had been unable to rouse any prefight bile. "Like everyone else I was very proud of these guys," he said softly, and by then the pipes were calling Evander Holyfield...
...Restic's more than a technician. The former pro football and baseball player sees the game as a unique indicator of its players' personalities, even their outlooks on life...
...visit was marred by an astonishing occurrence. A French bomb-disposal technician planted a small quantity of explosives, without detonator to be sure, on the grounds of the residence of the French Ambassador, where Mitterrand was to hold a reception. The technician, acting without authorization, apparently wanted to test British antibomb squads. The explosives were quickly discovered by dogs trained to detect them. Understandably edgy in the wake of the Irish Republican Army bombing in Brighton two weeks ago aimed at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British authorities questioned the French technician at length and gave him what was described...