Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because these men are professionals, they can afford to be liberal about civil rights: a rise in the Negro's economic standard will not affect them directly. Besides, their liberality is not the kind that will cause any changes. After several weeks of negotiating with a group of the town's Negro leaders, for example, the recommended to the City Council that a bi-racial council be established to discuss possibilities for fuller Negro employment. The suggestion had a double edged safeguard. If the City Council were rash enough to act upon it--which seemed to the Chamber highly unlikely...
...handful to a few score-and so far the cops have no idea who the leaders are. But neither Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage nor the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson dismisses the FLQ lightly. For behind the bombs and bombast lie deep-rooted grievances that affect all of French Canada's 5,500,000 citizens. The vast majority of them do not want to be separate. But they do want to be equal...
...Legislative changes that will give the Federal Government better control of all chemicals that affect man's environment. The call for tighter regulation may frighten chemical companies, but it does not support the more extravagant claims of their outspoken critics-those who believe that control of insects and other pests should be left to the "balance of nature." Nature must be kept out of balance, the report recognizes, if man is to survive in his present numbers...
...corporate planner is often on a vice-presidential level and usually paid well. His function is to look ahead for as far as ten or 15 years, outpredicting customers and competitors, plotting new products, new markets and new mergers and spying the social, political and economic changes that may affect his company. His basic job is to answer the question "What is this business all about?" Corporate planners like to say that if buggy manufacturers had been able to see that they were basically in the transportation business they might be today's automakers...
...struggles" have worsened: today's "affluent professor'' is the scientist who gets more money and faster promotions leaving humanists behind and bitter. The regular faculty is being jostled by the "un-faculty"-nontenure researchers who do not belong to the faculty senate, but whose projects profoundly affect university planning and financing. "Excessive amounts of expensive equipment have at times been purchased," says Kerr. "There have been some scandals. There will be more...