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24 — THE HERALD, Mon., Nov. 30. 1981 Adult education Rain ttnight Manchester, Conn. and Wednesday Tues., Dec. T, 1981 Entrepreneurs cash in on boom by offering short, practical courses — See page 2 Ulanrkfitrr Hrralft 25 Cents By Marianna Ohe UPl Business Writer Young entrepreneurs across the country stand to make millions of dollars in the burgeoning adult education market by offering short, EUROPEAN inexpensive, practical courses on Moffett NUCLEAR All die everything from computer programming to finding lovers. COUNTDOWN Unlike most of the noncredit free universities — or “ learning networks” — which sprang out of U.S.S.R. the counterculture of the 1960s and begins Tally: 1970s, the new networks are profit making and use the most up-to-date ju.s........ s a e marketing techniques to hone their lu.S.S.R. 9 7 5 ' • product to consumer demands. In New York. San Diego, race Sacramento, Houston and Chicago, U.S. tally: 13 for-profit networks have sprung U.S............6 6 0 * up in the past four years alongside \ X Predicting he would be a non- the 200-odd nonprofit ones around ideological, “ day-to-day” senator in U.8.S.R...S.S25* 1 ’ AJACCIO, Corsica I UPl I - A the country. the mold of fellow Democrat Yugoslav airliner carrying I Christopher J. Dodd, Congressman vacationers got lost in the THK FOUNDKRS of the new ven Toby Moffett today formally opened fogshrouded Corsican mountains tures say marketing studies show his campaign for Connecticut’s today while making a landing ap demand for the kind of courses they * Includes missiles & fighter-bombers Democratic U.S. Senate nomina '*'*lnciude$ missiles, fighter-bombers & submarines proach and crashed into a 3.270-foot offer is virtually limitless in a pop tion. peak, killing all 178 people aboard. ulation that increasingly is single, Moffett spoke in the Old State A helicopter radioed Ajaccio air upwardly mobile professionals U.S. PROPOSAL: House in Hartford to a room packed port that .it had sighted wreckage of thirsty for practical knowledge and with supporters and news media the DC-9 charter plane near the eager to meet people. Married To .cancal European ...If U.S.S.R. representatives. summit of Mount San Pietro on the couples and older people flock to the His speech had three main daploymant of... dismantles ,, southwest coast of the French courses for the same reasons. themes. First, Moffett emphasized Mediterranean island. This company will make me a his youthfulness (he is 37) by talking 464'Crulaa miailtos 270 SS-20*s "The plane crashed on San Pietro very wealthy man before I'm 30 if about the need for leadership that 108 Parshtng>2% mountain and there is not one sur things continue on the track they’re 360 SS<4’s & 5’s vivor. ” a spokesman at police on now,” says 27year-old Jeffrey A. would last to the end of the century, 572 630 headquarters in Ajaccio said. Hollender, founder of New York’s a time he said when critical problems will arise. All the dead were Yugpslavs, air ‘ ‘Network for Learning.” His is one UPl photo Secondly, he blasted President U Pl photo port authorities said. of the largest of the new ventures. It DPI photos t ■ offers 200 courses a month with an Ronald Reagan as dangerous on In Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, where foreign issues and uncaring on U.S. arms control negotiator Paul NItze,. 74, addresses The Soviet leadership Monday welcomed renewed arms the plane had taken off, Egon nual enrollment of 60,000. Hank Dolmatch had just moved to New York when he took the Jeffrey Hollender Is founder of "Network for something and learn It quickly, conventlently Network now surpasses New domestic matters and portrayed reporters at the U.S. Mission In Genova Monday after the negotiations between Moscow and Washington but said it Konradi, director general of the "How to find a lover in New York” course at the “Learning Learning,” one of the largest of the new ven and economically,” he said. The other big himself as being one of the new' opening session of the first talks on arms control between the Would hot let the United States win a military advantage at the Kompas travel agency, and Gustav York’s well-known New School for .motive is meeting people. Social Research and the New York Annex." He said the course was "genuinely helpful." Dolmatch tures In the adult education market. "It’s for breed of Democrats who mix two superpowers in two and a half years. U.S. and Soviet talks opening In Geneva. President Reagan has called for the Fuks, sales manager of Inex-Adria University School of Continuing is working for a TV syndication consulting firm. busy men and women who want to learn “ vision” and compassion with a negotiators, citing the "very high stakes" in their talks to halt the Soviet Union to dismantle its missiles aimed at Western Europe airlines said "according to latest in Education in size. sense of “ the new reality of limited in exchange for a NATO dicision to cancel deployment of new formation.” a total of 175 crew nuclear arms race, imposed a total news blackout on their members and passengers and three resources.” negotiations. American rockets in Europe. ITS O.NE-SESSION and four- in other cities, as do his major com accelerated- the pace of social groups to grow fast. Bili Draves, having done graduate studies. and enroiling 15,000 students annual Finally, Moffett attacked by im babies, were aboard the plane. session courses range from Man petitors, Bill Zanker, 27, and change, and people are becoming director of LRN, says one of the “ But they told us the market was ly. plication his probable top opponent. French police on Corsica earlier darin Chinese cooking to personal Howard Yossem, 28, founders of aware that their previous education, fastest-growing subject areas is limitless,” Zanker says. “ All the Republican Sen. Lowell Weicker, reported 174 people aboard the financial management to careers in New York’s ‘ ‘Learning Annex.” at whatever level, is rapidly business ^nd personal finance, way from unemployment types to One of the oldest for-profit saying the state needs a politician plane. cable television to finding an apart “ People today don’t have either becorfiing obsolete.” which jumped to 5.6 percent of all people making more than $50,000 a networks with enrollment of 18,000- who is in good standing with his The debris of the DC-9 was found ment or a lover in New York to fir the time or inclination to spend courses given last year from 3 per 20,000 annually for courses ranging - COLLEGES AND universities year. And all ages. Now we’ve own party. (Weicker is a notorious after three helicopters and a French ming your fanny ( “ Bunnastics” ) to three or four months, and the cent the previous year, a sharp from tax return preparation to are beginning to adjust to this trend broadened our curriculum. We have maverick, often on the outs with his navy plane carrying doctors assertiveness training to skydiving. fortune-per-credit, attending a one-year increase. 4-5 courses for people over 65 years mysteries of the orgasm, it expects Arms talks begin 'OK' searched lor nearly five hours in the by establishing new colleges and own party, the GOP.) Usually taught by practicing regular class to learn what they can “ By the end of the century, most old, courses like “ dating after 40,” to gross $250,000 in revenues this rugged, isolated mountains external degree programs, Knowles Besides targeting Weicker as his professionals rather than learn in a one-night or four-week education will be taking place off and a couple of day courses, too. year, according to President Donna wreathed in clouds and fog. academics, the courses are held in course, ” Hollender says. “ Network says. campus, in the workplace and the main opponent, Moffett also brought That’s the best time for the over 65 Gerdin. Course prices average GENEVA, Switzerland (U Pl) - the negotiations to prevent a public and one stenographer for each of us,” Nitze said in a statement ap The plane, with a crew of six, was the evening in rented classrooms, is not for academic scholars. It’s for “ But,” he says, “ they are, not home -through computers and in up money — another reference to age group.” around $10-$25 but some, like Christ U.S. and Soviet arms control propaganda debate and to improve delegation. proved by his Soviet counterpart. on the final day of a four-day corporate boardrooms, restaurant busy mety.and women who want to changing as fast as the adults are teractive television, via cable and Weicker, heir to his family’s Squibb mas carolling, are free. negotiators began detailed talks the chances of reaching an agree Nitze sat on one side, facing out ■‘The details of the negotiations Yugoslav charter trip from kitchens, Broadway theaters, learn something and learn it quick demanding, so the adults are turning satellite,” Knowles says. ZANKER BELIEVES the drug fortune — and Prescott Bush of today on limiting nuclear weapons ment. over the lake, with Kvitsinsky op must be kept inside the negotiating Lbubljana to Corsica for a day of photographers’ darkrooms, artists ly, conveniently and economically.” to alternative programs and com network concept is adaptable to all Are the customers satisfied with Greenwich, brother of Vice Presi THE BIG impetus behind the for- in Europe, conferring for 2V5 hours ■ In imposing the blackout, the posite him. rooms,’’ the statement said, sightseeing in the capital and on the lofts and teachers’ homes as the mercial institutions.

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