Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and many other cities, ghetto community groups have opened black-run shops and factories, with big white-run companies providing the capital, training or markets. Significantly, both presidential candidates have pledged major Government help for this movement. Nixon began promoting the cause of "Black Capitalism," and Humphrey called for "Black Entrepreneurship...
...Iranian government moved quickly to help the living. Within 48 hours, survivors in the major villages received emergency supplies, and Iranian air force C-130s were soon parachuting tents and blankets to hamlets unreachable by road. Nothing more could be done for the dead. Four days after the earthquake, the government reluctantly ordered in bulldozers to turn what once were the victims' homes into their permanent graves. The leveled villages will be abandoned, and new ones built nearby for the survivors...
...time, and quit school, return or transfer at will. Scholars, predicts Lewis B. Mayhew, a professor of higher education at Stanford, will be paid well enough to spurn research grants and outside fees. They will thus finally be able to accept the idea that "their chief duty is to help young people change...
That euphoric vision of undergraduate education is put forward by Mayhew in Campus 1980 (Delacorte Press; $6.95), a collection of future-oriented essays by 17 U.S. educators. No romantic, Mayhew bases his predictions on trends already discernible. He believes that technology will help to bring about the new accent on the individual needs of students. National admissions centers will match students by computer with the college that best suits their interests, allow them to move freely from campus to campus. Short-range jets will enable professors to serve consortia of small colleges that agree to share faculty and facilities...
...assist in electroshock treatments, guard narcotics supplies, give injections and other medications, take an active part in group-therapy sessions-and, by the doctors' insistence, must always be available to the patients. "Society is going to have to recognize that it's at least as important to help a man back to health as it is to go out to the Goodyear plant on the edge of town and make a good tire," Stamps says. "So far, it hasn't recognized that. People who work with people-the most precious product in the country-are downtrodden everywhere...