Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson's de-escalatory approach comes at a troublous time for allied ground forces in South Viet Nam. Two months after the Tet attacks, they are still largely on the defensive, and in many places in a virtual state of siege. In all probability-regardless of Ho Chi Minh's response, or nonresponse, to Johnson's new terms-U.S. forces in coming months will have to continue their effort to regain the initiative on the ground. South Viet Nam's major population centers are still gravely menaced...
...crimes is increasing because the number of young people is growing, and they commit most crimes. Viewing this situation objectively leads to two basic conclu sions. First, the U.S. is now spending $1 billion a year for corrections in ways that can only increase crime. Second, a dramatically different approach can decrease it - for the same money...
...that society is wrong, not he. As critics see it, even the best prison is still a totalitarian society that spurs human resistance and reinforces the criminal's cynicism. In this view, the solution is getting criminals to reform themselves in the process of reforming other criminals. This approach has worked wonders in New Jersey with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings listening to a selected boy's woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside...
...sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring for an all-out jump. And Beamon is still deciding how far to run before takeoff: he usually favors a run of 134 ft, but both his world records came off runs of 114 ft. Moreover, he cannot be bothered counting strides or placing...
...same time, Nixon, the leading Republican contender for the Presidential nomination, praised the "low-keyed, dignified approach" of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy...