Word: basic
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Certain similarities between Chris Marker's The Koumiko Mystery and the American documentaries seem to imply a common basic premise. The choice of "real" subject matter, the use of television programs and political commentary, the inclusion of footage which could not have been preplanned (the Tokyo Olympic Games for example), and the apparently random way Marker orders his material suggest the same realities as do the Americans...
...client's educational level is found to be too low to contract him out to a regular school, he is sent to the second set of Win specialist--the Adult Basic Education (ABE) team. Again stressing an individualized program, the team assists the satisfied that he has achieved his objectives, which will support his employment goals...
...acting as "a creation of the community it serves, WIN represents the most basic form of community self-help, that of improving employment opportunities", and thereby hopes to overcome the standardization and impersonality of other welfare programs...
Clients' apathy is a problem basic to WIN's ideology. As Evelyn Smith, assistant state supervisor for WIN, puts it, "Although the program ocers preparation for a new way of life, we're working with people who are not even interested in jobs...
ALTHOUGH WIN's aim is to stimulate work incentive through education, even in the maximum of a year of training it is difficult to provide more than basic 'mechanical" skills...