Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked whether Watts has seen economic improvement, Dymally replied that there have been "some visible changes, but no substantive changes." He added that private enterprise has stimulated some economic improvement, but it has done little to erase Watt's deficiencies in housing, health, and education. He denounced President-elect Nixon's proposal of "black capitalism" in the ghetto, saying that it would only provide money for a few "black bourgeois" but "it won't help the masses of people...
...message of the Cohen report is that Massachusetts' welfare money is not reaching the people who need it. By helping to dramatize that fact, the welfare mothers and their supporters were trying to do something which needed to be done. They are not criminals or conspirators as Governor Volpe would like us to believe. A charge of conspiracy for such a protest as this one is absurd and unjust...
Miss du Bois is a social anthropologist. Perhaps her most famous book is The People of Alor, a social-psychological study of an East Indian island. She has done field work in India and gives a graduate seminar in "Problems of Socio-Cultural Change...
...have to wear these glasses some of the time now. I tried to sue the cops, but the trial was in their town and they all called each other by the first name at the hearing. The judge would say "Now what's he say that Tom's done?" It didn't stop the act though because we had the tumbling act and you could do that even if you could barely...
Computers have changed everything. They are more responsible for technological warfare than bombs and rockets. Computers control industrial processes, sometimes by making calculations and telling human operators what needs to be done, sometimes by regulating variables on production lines, and sometimes--mainly in the chemical and petroleum business--by running the routine operations of a whole plant. Computers may masquerade as tools, but they are better at cutting out machine tools than humans. They can design bridges, ships, and auto bodies...