Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the new era and to maintain the tradition of greatness in teaching and thinking which had made Harvard Law School the preeminent legal academy in the English speaking world. Dean James Landis had resigned in confusing and unhappy circumstances. The lawyers at Harvard required a friend to help them in healing painful wounds...
...also insisted that extensive use indicates a real problem, and that those who "need a joint every night before they go to bed, take it when they are by themselves, or believe there is some sort of magic in a joint which will somehow change their personality" need professional help...
...have labeled their walkouts "mass resignations" and "professional study days." The courts have issued injunctions anyway, but the unions block the injunctions with appeals and indifference. They are rarely punished, the reason being that as part of the eventual settlement the unions obtain a promise that the government will help bury any legal consequences that might otherwise proceed from the strike...
...another air-safety move, President Johnson requested $7,000,000 from Congress to hire and train 900 additional FAA air-traffic controllers to help sort increasingly heavy airplane traffic and prevent mid-air collisions. The President also asked Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd to draw up a long-term safety program, whose estimated $5 billion cost for "facilities, equipment and personnel" would be largely financed out of user charges...
...when industry and other professions are availing themselves of modern technological developments as tools to assist them, we have as yet taken little advantage of data processing and have accomplished little by way of determining where these technological developments could help the courts and the bar generally from the standpoint of administration. I do not want to suggest or leave the impression that I think any of these can or ever should be a substitute for the judging process, but I am satisfied that our profession can, if it will but examine its potential, obtain much useful help from data...