But it also needs job-market reforms, from streamlining and upgrading training to increasing employers' incentives to hire the low-skilled.

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The group is upgrading Chinook helicopters and training soldiers as well as testing weapons.

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The emphasis, he said, must be on training and upgrading black skills.

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The rest is used for upgrading and maintaining equipment and training.

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Though the SESAME Centre has been in existence since 2004 and has been functioning since then both as regards work on the upgrading of the machine and the training of a users community, it is today, with the building in place and the microtron installed, that the true beginnings of the laboratory are seen.

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To make its ethics training more relevant, HCA is upgrading to more nuanced fare: When has an emergency room fulfilled its legal obligation to provide "stabilizing" care for a patient unable to pay for it?

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And industry-specific training with lots of input from employers seems to be more effective than a general upgrading of skills.

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Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.

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