Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest in a continuing series of foreign policy blunders- accepting the propaganda "apology" of the North Koreans in exchange for the lives of two U.S. servicemen [Aug. 30]-demonstrates again the "gutless" approach of the Ford-Kissinger regime in dealing with puppet dictatorships...
...revelation of any man comes through flashes of light." So said CBS President Frank Stanton before a journalism group in 1960 as he analyzed the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates of that year. It is a remark worth recalling as the Ford-Carter debates of 1976 approach. While it has become fashionable to belittle the first televised clash of major presidential candidates, the 1960 debates did illuminate important personal qualities of the two men-more so, in fact, than anyone realized at the time...
...L.A.P.D. unit's approach to a witness is simple and direct. The subject is offered a comfortable chair, and a two-man team explains to him that a witness cannot be hypnotized against his will. (When one scared subject blurted that "the devil will come out of me if I'm hypnotized," he was excused.) "Motivation is the most important thing," says Sandstrom. "If they are willing to cooperate and you help them to relax, then it is very easy...
...which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical and straightforward approach, even inmates with scant education often prove to be apt and alert pupils...
Another promising approach was reported by Dr. Robert R. Riggio and his co-workers at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Riggio was aware that women produce large amounts of antibodies during pregnancy, specifically in response to the fetus, yet somehow manage to tolerate this "foreign" tissue in their bodies. He therefore wondered whether the baby might actually be stimulating the production of "blocking antibodies" within the mother that neutralize her immune reaction against the fetus. If so, perhaps the same response could be artificially produced in transplant recipients...