Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surface, delinquency in "good" families (where slum conditions and juvenile gangs are not a factor) seems hard to explain. But where the two psychiatrists were able to study both child and parents, they reported, the child's "defect" was always traceable to one parent or both...
This was the table of operations: call a general strike, muster the mob in the labyrinthine municipal bazaar, then fight through central Teheran to Majlis Square, where the leaders would emerge and take charge. If all went well, the Black Spiders would incite army units to defect, the Reds would break out hidden stores of rifles and bazookas, and the general strike would turn into a revolution...
...picture approach in his campaign to restore confidence in the State Department. Foreign policy, he argued, must not only be concrete enough to work, it must also be coherent enough for the people to understand. In his congressional relations, he was careful to avoid Acheson's chief personality defect--contempt for the ignorant. During his first seven months in office Dulles gut in 32 appearances before congressional committees, held 58 unofficial meetings with congressional groups...
...General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, drastically revising Adam Smith's view of capitalism. His conclusion: the market place is not a safe place; every boom is constantly threatened with collapse, any depression might last indefinitely. No moral question is involved. The system has a mechanical defect, and its price is high: unemployment. The solution. stated in its simplest form: government investment. The less radical of the British Socialists, e.g., the late Sir Stafford Cripps, followed Keynes (who died in 1946). Whatever may be said for or against him, Keynes was, essentially, the prophet of economic patchwork...
...ever existed. At one point, U.S. Rubber President H. E. Humphreys Jr. said that the only instruction he has ever received from the Du Pont brothers has been: "Elmer, you do what you think best for U.S. Rubber." The Government's case also suffered from one other defect: not one company has yet come forward to charge that it has been hurt by what the Government has called "the tremendous industrial trinity of chemicals, motors and rubber...