Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amnesty operates through individuals and groups, who, White says, "actually adopt a prisoner as a long-term affair." Before Amnesty will sponsor a prisoner, the London headquarters investigates his case to verify that it is political, often sending observers to open trials. "We don't want criminals," White stresses. Amnesty groups consist of fifteen people who "adopt" three prisoners from different countries. Individuals usually "adopt" a single prisoner. In addition to the $5 per year dues required from every individual, groups are also expected to raise another $400 annually through functions like bake sales. Amnesty also conducts direct mailing campaigns...
Amnesty's success has grown in proportion to its reputation. White mentions that prisoners often receive more food and better treatment once it is known that Amnesty has adopted their case. "In countries where repression is a serious issue, everybody in the jails knows about us," she says. Amnesty's services extend beyond merely obtaining a prisoner's release. The organization sometimes supports a prisoner's family while he is in jail, and often helps him to reorganize his life after he is out. White stresses that Amnesty does not only adopt famous dissidents, but "the little guy who nobody...
Ultimately, Amnesty aims at the same area of the American consciousness as those ads in the New Yorker which inform the reader that you-can-save-Jose-for-$15-a-month-or-turn-the-page. As White notes, "once you adopt a prisoner, the relationship weighs so heavily on your conscience that you feel personally responsible for his welfare." She adds that "this is why Amnesty works so well--it makes the members feel so concerned and successful with what they are doing...
Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II has called for creation of a highly visible and vocal federal planning body?underscoring Nobel Laureate Leontief's prediction that the U.S. will adopt planning "not because some wild radicals demand it but because businessmen will demand it to keep the system from sputtering to a halt." Ford's idea is that a planning organization should examine "cost-effectiveness and set timetables. It should take a look at population growth; usages of raw materials and their
...longer term, however, fiscal and monetary policies must be supplemented by other measures to contain inflation and ease recession. The two most hotly disputed issues are whether the U.S. should adopt some form of wage and price restraints and whether it should move to some form of economic planning. Economists and other experts are sharply divided on these huge questions, but there is widespread agreement that Washington should adopt at least two other strategies...