Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists to measure the effect of this principle. But it is a fact-and a significant one-that 50% of Peace Corps volunteers ultimately change their careers...
...France since Napoleon established the imperial university system in 1808. Aimed at preventing a renewal of the kind of riots that shut down the universities last spring, Faure's program also attacks the bureaucratic rigidity of the highly centralized system. His reform bill, which will not take full effect for at least a year, specifically indicts the "inhuman dimensions," "immobility," "isolation," and "superficial and arbitrary examinations" of the present system...
Although ingenious theories have been advanced to explain this paradoxical effect of methylphenidate, the mechanism of its action is unknown. The drug has few side effects, the two most notable being a slight loss of appetite and a tendency to insomnia if the last dose is taken too late at night...
...current approach is Rule 10b-5 of the 1934 act. A broadly worded regulation against fraud in trading, 10b-5 has been interpreted in the courts to mean that all investors must be guaranteed "equal access" to "material information" that might influence stock prices. In effect, it broadens the definition of insider to include anyone privy to information and requires him not to act on it before it becomes public knowledge...
...vision -that of a man stripped of all humane conventions and in complete control of his impulses and appetites. In fact, the protagonist's obsession with control becomes indistinguishable from the book itself. Every word is weighted to produce the precise tension that each episode calls for. The effect is hypnotic but short-lived. For unlike The Painted Bird, this novel lacks the grounding situation, the structure and the connective tissue that could have made it more than a rather abstract expression of a pathological state of mind...