Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to send a child out into the day, knowing that he will charge headfirst into a multitude of unacceptable activities, as he did yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good belting instead of medication, I'll have you to back...
...merely getting even. Humphrey has attempted to equate Nixon with Wallace and make the Republican ticket synonymous with reaction and recession, and was still at it last week. Winning the presidency, he said, is "not worth a compromise with extremism." Again: "You cannot afford to have people in control of your government who believe that a little higher rate of unemployment is good for you." He admonished New York Democrats to "improvise," and for invidious inspiration he observed: "If the British after Dun kirk hadn't improvised, Hitler would have had England. If the Democrats after Chicago...
...city's minorities, it is not a question of dullness or excitement, but survival in the urban jungle. Properly dissatisfied with the inferior education that most of their children were receiving, the city's Negroes long ago began pressing for local control of schools in black neighborhoods. With encouragement from Lindsay, the Central School Board last year grudgingly met them part way, offering black communities limited autonomy in three experimental districts. If the districts succeeded, the prospect was that the entire school system-a "pathological bureaucracy" in the words of New York University Professor David Rogers-would...
...union felt endangered. Not only would decentralization break up the school system, many teachers reasoned, it would also break up the union, which would have to negotiate with 33 local school boards. To many teachers and indeed to many members of other unions, the Negroes' demand for community control-and the city's limited compliance-was nothing less than union busting...
...teachers' rights be protected as the system is decentralized? It should be possible to work out intermediate stages between completely local and completely central control, thus combining both teachers...