Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of South Africa, the corporations themselves would have to prove their good citizenship. The ACSR listed a series of guidelines that companies choosing to remain in South Africa should follow in order to "ameliorate the effects of apartheid with respect to their own employees, even where such action impinges on profitability." The guidelines are based on principles first proposed in 1977 by Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors Corporation, and would require a company to end discriminatory practices in employment and working conditions...
...obtain information fail, the ACSR recommended, in its report of January 1979, that the Corporation initiate what it termed "information resolutions," noting that requests for information by universities are especially appropriate because "their primary purposes revolve around education, learning, and the dissemination of knowledge." It distinguished "information" from "action" resolutions, and said the latter should be used even more sparsely...
...enough. The U.S. has 27,000 psychiatrists in active practice, up from 5,800 in 1950. But now the bloom is off the therapeutic rose. Today only 4% to 5% of medical school graduates go into psychiatry, vs. 12% in 1970. Says one doctor: "Psychiatry is not where the action...
Still, drug therapy has been essentially a holding action to stabilize the troubled. Tranquilizers such as Valium and Librium are good at reducing anxiety and tension, but they may interfere with thinking and can become habit-forming. The antidepressants, called tricyclics, are increasingly effective, but also can have adverse side effects. The stronger antipsychotic drugs like Thorazine are useful for handling schizophrenics, whose behavior is characterized by hallucinations and severely disordered thinking, as well as other forms of severe mental disorder. But while these chemicals produce a rapid return to normal, or at least socially acceptable behavior, in some patients...
...time for action is right now," Joe Tyndall, who is pushing for a referendum banning nuclear power in Massachusetts said yesterday. "We thought we were going to wait until 1982. With the movie (The China Syndrome) and now the accident, it became clear that now is the time. We want to end nuclear power in 19 months," he said...