As a result, top Indian firms often have to put new hires through months of in-house schooling to train them for jobs for which they were supposed to be qualified.

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So rather than wait for the perfect candidates to walk through the door, companies have decided to school their in-house staff or train new hires who may lack the exact skills they were looking for.

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Taking the shrinking market into account, RM Auctions, the Ontario-based auction house handling the sale, has pegged its train lot estimates on the low end.

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Founded in Paris in 1849 by Pauline Moynat, the house originally achieved glory by constructing customized trunks for well-heeled train and boat travelers in an era when traversing the Atlantic took days.

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The funds would flow from Washington in the form of categorical grants, meaning they would have to be used to purchase new equipment, train personnel or otherwise enhance first-responder capabilities, White House budget director Mitch Daniels said.

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In June, 2007, a measure authorizing the U.S. Department of Labor to spend a hundred and twenty-five million dollars to train workers for green jobs was introduced in the House.

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