Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft is a growth industry, so much so that the FBI has a special program to train agents to cope with the electronic cutpurses...
This attitude of attempting to cope actively with conflicts is what Fisher says he hopes to teach his students in Soc Sci 174, a course sporting a hefty 72-page reading list and syllabus. Most of those pages contain detailed explanations of what students are expected to learn about particular diplomatic and conflict-solving techniques, such as breaking conflicts into bite-sized pieces, and making it easier for the other guy to do what you want him to. Soc Sci 174 is supposed to help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of international conflict-solving by teaching students...
...ranch, Big John Connally's younger brother and former campaign manager is sitting pretty. After landing two movie roles, including a bit part in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the cattleman has turned novelist. The hero is a retired Texas politician summoned to Washington to cope with an Arab oil embargo in the year 1980. Who could it be? Well, drawls Merrill, 57, "you might say the character is a lot like someone I've known all my life...
...with large Hispanic enclaves, such as New York, Florida and Southern California, is bilingual and bicultural: the programs encourage native-born Americans to achieve fluency in a foreign language even as their counterparts are learning English. In Miami's Coral Way Elementary School, which inaugurated the bicultural method to cope with the huge influx of refugees from Cuba in 1963, all students study for half a day in Spanish and for the other half in English...
...even if we all get in touch with our feelings and tap our feet to our biorhythms, we still can't cope. While pop psychological and sociological analyses may provide short-term solutions to the problems posed by life in American society, they don't really get to the roots of those problems. Indeed, as Christopher Lasch argues in Haven in a Heartless World, the new nostrums are more symptomatic than curative of America's psychological malaise...