Word: trained
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...future, Design School ideas will probably continue to find their way into the real world, if for no other reason than that the school is continuing to run programs which directly train public officials...
Many now take programs like the ones Boothe enrolled in, which grant officials scholarships to take evening classes. In addition, the school offers programs to train third world officials in management, and has a Research Unit for Housing and Urbanization which holds seminars on third world problems...
...conventions away from places like Orlando, Las Vegas and New Orleans. But analysts give Trump's gamble long odds. To begin with, the weather in February is less than hospitable, and the Taj is hard to get to from most parts of the country. Traffic congeals on summer weekends, train service is poor, and the airport lacks a real passenger terminal. Costs are high, says Paine Webber analyst Lee Isgur, "because basically New Jersey is a scummy place for unions and bureaucracy." The present mayor has been indicted for corruption and influence peddling, the fourth of the past six incumbents...
...Core suffers from schizophrenia. According to Courses of Instruction, the Core tries to train students in "the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought that are the hallmarks of educated men and women." But Harvard claims the Core does not require "digestion of a specific quantum of information," presumably because any specific factual knowledge will soon become obsolete in the age of the information explosion. Instead, the Core attempts to teach the "forms of inquiry" and "approaches to knowledge"--essentially, ways of thinking--associated with each of the Core fields, irrespective of factual content. It ends up doing neither...
...part down, they hate your guts -- until they want something else from you. Then they love you again. I feel sorry for someone who doesn't know this for a year or two and ends up with footprints on his forehead." For a newcomer in movies, he says, "the train pulls out at 12:01. You're on it or you're not. The greatest ^ plateau in Hollywood is when they hold the train for you." This is scrappy, Irish-Catholic Long Island talking. In his own voice. Acerbic, confident, knowing that Hollywood stardom is waiting, and that...