Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal, Milgram points out, is to actually go to the cities, to "buttress raw data with observation. Measurement without perception leads to a caricature." One of his thesis advises, for example, has studied the willingness of Parisians to help stranded tourists. He and a native Frenchman spent a summer asking random passers-by for directions (in French) and comparing the frequency of helpful answers. It was higher for the Frenchman...
...help us solve our reserve book problem," she said, "we really have no basis for our claim to get into Lamont...
...this one, Chinese citizens have often exceeded Party directives for fear of being left behind. Also, Tuesday's huge Red Guard rally in Peking indicated that Mao and Lin may have several additional errands for the Guards to do. But the Party has already ordered some Red Guards to help harvest the crops, and with an anticipated drop in grain production the Party may send many more out to harvest every last kernel...
...first half of 1966, the industry sold a record 708,939 cars. Prospects were good for the second half as well. But, in July, the Labor government drastically tightened credit to help the ailing pound. Typically, the anti-inflationary measures bore down hard on car buying. The 25% auto-purchase tax was increased to 27½%, minimum down payments were hiked from 25% to 40%, and the time allowed for payments was cut from 27 to 24 months. British governments invariably excuse such controls by claiming that cars are just luxury items. What with the tough new rules, potential auto...
...Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee was headed by Jacques Barzun, Columbia University's dean of faculty, who asked four-educators and a poet to help...