Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...century Church of Santa Maria Assunta at Balvano. Three hundred parishioners, mostly mothers and children receiving instructions for their First Communion, were attending evening Mass when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under a mountain of stone. The bleeding figure of a town official landed...
...many Westinghouse workers in New Jersey, accepts that reasoning. "Frankly, I welcome it," he says. "If we can bring in a robot here to do, say, the painting that a man does for $7, then we can move him to another job at $7.50 an hour. We say, 'Train our people for the skilled jobs that are in today's market...
...source of the Queen's ire was a Sunday Mirror report that the couple had secretly spent two evenings alone together aboard the royal train during an official visit by the Prince to the West Country. "A total fabrication!" charged Her Majesty's press secretary, Michael Shea. He demanded a full apology...
...press were quick to criticize the Sunday Mirror. The paper had acted "disgracefully," editorialized the conservative Daily Mail. "It makes you wince," volunteered Columnist Jean Rook in the pro-Tory Daily Express. A Daily Mail article quoted Lady Diana as insisting: "I've never been anywhere near the train, let alone in the middle of the night." Prince Charles, in New Delhi on a state visit, observed that in the press, honesty and integrity "often get submerged in the general rush for sensationalism...
...last train for Boston pulled out of Harvard/Brattle Station at 11:32 p.m.; attendants then stood in the doorways and told passengers that service had shutdown...