Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less on new technology. The arguments this time won't be that different. Though Letteri acknowledges that morale among the officers has definitely improved, he says he would like to see ten more patrolmen hired to take some of the increasing workload off the existing force and to help fight the growing crime rate...
Chafin says that as of last July, the computer indexing of crimes has been corrected and the difference should help to legitimize the computer system. "Time moves on and we have to be progressive. With the volume of work there's no way in hell that we can handle the work load manually," Chafin says...
...power of Harvard's investment portfolio, like most things at Harvard, is shrouded in mystery. Portfolio managers daily decide the direction of the University's investments, secluded from student demonstrators and outside interference. Like the gnomes of Zurich, they keep their decisions out of the public eye and help to perpetuate the myth behind Harvard's portfolio. They are cautious, conservative investors, seemingly unshaken by the moral and ethical questions students raise...
Language placement tests, questionnaires distributed to freshmen, and freshman advisers all help immediately spot any students with potential language problems, Dinklage says. That way, students can be tested for language disability before they have to take the language requirement. "There is a phenomenon by which the longer some students study a language, the lower they score on language tests," Whitlock says...
Bakanowsky also anticipates a change in current policy with Brustein's arrival "He's a doer, and with his help, things might change...