Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some critics argue that many of the new ideas still fail to solve the criminal's basic problem: his firm belief that society is wrong, not he. As critics see it, even the best prison is still a totalitarian society that spurs human resistance and reinforces the criminal's cynicism. In this view, the solution is getting criminals to reform themselves in the process of reforming other criminals. This approach has worked wonders in New Jersey with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings...
McCulloch's twin-boom J-2 gyroplane can virtually duplicate the performance of a helicopter. It can make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
...year history, the U.S. has formally devalued the dollar in terms of gold only once, in 1934. Franklin Roosevelt's aim in raising the price of gold from $20.67 to its present $35 per oz. was to mid-Depression.*Not increase only farm did he prices in fail in that objective, but dollar devaluation furthered a chain reaction of compet itive devaluations and trade restrictions aimed at preserving jobs. One effect was to devastate world trade, which fell 57% between...
...even tried to project an image of himself as the underdog. Particularly since the New Hampshire, primary immediately preceeds the Wisconsin race, in which McCarthy has always been expected to do well, Johnson himself is now in a position to score a "moral victory" should the Minnesota Senator fail to sweep the state convincingly...
...revision also allows pass-fail to be used for concentration credit. Aside from tutorials, Soc Rel 10, methodology, and graduate courses, honors concentrators may take one and one-half courses under pass-fail. Non-honors may take an additional half course under pass-fail...