Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Siegfried M. Breuning, a visiting lecturer in Transportation--said that none of the protesting students had brought any of their complaints to him. Breuning said that the course's specific focus was still flexible and that he would talk with students at the first course meeting to see what approach they wanted to take...
...like some kind of seafood dish, but he didn't pursue the comparison any further.) Anyway, she told Martin's parents and Martin that he masn't really in bad shape (mind you, she was only a trainee) and that all he needed was to take a more positive approach to things, and that everything would turn out fine...
...going to approach you now," said Psychiatrist Augustus F. Kinzel to his subject, who stood eight feet away at the center of a bare room. "Tell me to stop when you think I'm too close." He moved forward a pace. "Here?" Another step. "Here?" The subject, an inmate of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost...
...Springfield, he has tested his theory on a group of prisoners, some known to be violent, others tractable. On the average, the violent subjects stopped him at a distance of three feet, and showed markedly increasing tension and hostility as the circle shrank. The nonviolent subjects let him approach to half that distance. Moreover, the two areas of insulating space differed radically in shape. That of the violent prisoners bulged to the rear-an avenue of approach that they regarded as unusually menacing. The nonviolent subjects' personal zones were nearly cylindrical...
Even with the quotas, the FAA concedes that rush-hour delays of up to one hour will have to be considered "reasonable." John Shaffer, a former vice president of TRW, Inc., who is the new FAA administrator, says that the quotas are merely a "Band-Aid approach" that does not solve the real problems. Inadequate airports and traffic-control systems have been overwhelmed by the 101% increase in air traffic within the past decade. A program to automate air-traffic control more fully is two years behind schedule...