Word: curran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe pair continued its steady play in yesterday morning's semifinal, dumping Princeton's second team in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. But in the afternoon final, they didn't have the firepower to stay with Princeton's nationally-ranked Louise Gengler and Mo Curran...
Certainly much of the sentiment for independence is tied to the Scots' feeling that they would be better off without the dead weight of England's colossal problems. "England is bankrupt and has nowhere to go," says Robert Curran, 50, a recently returned émigré. "Our whisky alone could float the government." Many Scots resent the fact that they hold few influential positions in the south, while Englishmen control many of the best jobs in Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate...
...January 10, 1973, U.S. Attorney Paul Curran filed an answer to the charges of the SWP which admitted to a broad spying operation against it and the YSA. The SWP program dated back to 1945. Curran also admitted the existence of an "SWP Disruption Program" running from 1961 to 1969; a "limited national security electronic surveillance of certain plaintiffs" from 1945-1963; the placing of a "mail cover" on all correspondence to the SWP national headquarters from January to May 1973. The "SWP Disruption Program" was first made public by NBC newsman Carl Stern, who had obtained original FBI documents...
These critics object to the vagueness of Curran's definition of "special offenders"--he says they're inmates who "exhibit signs of serious mental disturbance" or "repeated aggressive behavior," who are "incorrigible," "disruptive," and "dangerous." Matthew Dumont, the assistant commissioner, predicts that in practice "special offenders" would mean political activists, and there's nothing in Curran's plan to prove him wrong. The critics also object to what they consider Curran's recommendation of drug therapy and behavior modification programs to control troublesome prisoners. Curran says he didn't recommend these programs at all, but his report summary says...
Besides raising questions about the sorts of prison programs New England states are willing to consider, Curran's report raises--once again--questions about the role universities and university professors play in society as a whole, and the freedom from responsibility and criticism they sometimes claim in the name of academic freedom. Like the work of government professors --Samuel P. Huntington, for instance--who theorized for the Army during the Indochina war, like the work of economists--some of those at Harvard's Development Advisory Service, for example--who advise dicatorships around the world on keeping their economies running, like...