Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going between expensive restaurants and expensive ladies rooms. But they become bored with being successful parasites; they lie, they steal, seeking new excitement, "a worse kind of life." Finally they stumble upon an unattended banquet, which they utterly destroy. Here the film stops; they are seen drowning, calling for help against filmic extinction. The filmmaker, arbiter of their future, types out a message on the screen: "Even if they were given a chance, things would, at best, turn out like this." But they are given a chance, and suddenly are back at the ruined banquet, trying to set things alright...
...results of these tests could help to answer such important question as the composition of the moon's surface, the age of the moon and its origin...
...deal with deep-seated causes of a patient's psychosis, reinforcement therapy concentrates on controlling and guiding everyday behavior. Its basic principle is that the residual signs of normality in an insane person should be encouraged by praise and applause-in effect, reinforced and taught with the help of tangible rewards...
...theories were expanded by the greatest living exponent of behaviorism, Harvard Psychologist B. F. Skinner, who demonstrated that rats, pigeons and even men are influenced by the consequences that their actions have. This principle, the reinforcement therapists insist, applies also to mental patients previously thought to be beyond psychiatric help...
Melchett was stopped by the government's Prices and Incomes Board, which ruled late in May that BSC could raise prices only $96 million. The board's order was intended to help British export industries-most of which are not nationalized-by holding down the costs of their steel. Melchett angrily protested against forcing BSC to subsidize exports, but to little avail...