Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that would have made much difference on our Vietnam policy even if we had seen the absurdity of the policy and the course it would take with the foresight we now have in hindsight. Did Roger Hillsman or Jim Thomson or even Arthur Schlesinger's resignation from the government help bring about a change? To be sure, there is an "effectiveness trap," but I think one might say there is a "moral purity" trap too, for the person who remains morally pure accomplishes little except to salve his own conscience...
...states, "The Coop has actively recruited through the Action for Boston Community Development, the largest agency in greater Boston working in the poverty field. The Coop's advertising has been concentrated in Cambridge and the surrounding communities because this is our prime recruiting and market area. All of our Help Wanted ads include the statement: 'An equal opportunity employer.'" The only way the Coop is legally allowed to count the number of its minority group employees is by a yearly head count. As of March 1968, the Coop had 604 employees, of which only 44, or about seven per cent...
Even if the group's takeover bid succeeds next week, the Coop appears unlikely to change very much. The movement to change the system from within, however, has at least raised some serious questions about the Coop's social responsibility. Whoever governs the Coop for the next year cannot help knowing that pressure is now on to reevaluate some of the Coop's basic employment and community policies...
WILSON'S STYLES of police behavior are best used as a rough grid to help describe how and why the police of a given community act. As Wilson admits, the styles are not empirically defined, and are more the result of the judicious impressions of his workers in the field. Indeed, the book falters most noticeably when Wilson attempts to use selected tables of arrest statistics to bolster his argument on the styles. The statistics do tend to confirm that the styles exist, but they also lead him into tiresome digressions to explain anomalies in certain of the tables...
During last week's labor crisis with the kitchen help at Radcliffe, for example, RUS beat SDS to printing a fact-sheet on the dispute. Some students found themselves looking to RUS for announcements of new developments, while last year they ignored the weekly RGA bulletins...