Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police, in Chicago and elsewhere, say that thorough searches are often necessary in order to find weapons, drugs or dangerous objects a suspect may be hiding. But those who have gone through the experience for such things as traffic violations strongly disagree. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, 50 Jane Does with similar experiences filed a class-action suit this month asking the U.S. district court to restrict Chicago police from conducting strip-searches of women accused of nothing more serious than misdemeanors and traffic violations. A warrant would have to be obtained for such a search...
...Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...
...plight becomes all too apparent, however, there are signs that the regulators are becoming worried and softening their attitudes. Two weeks ago, Adams conceded that the "companies' resources are stretched in meeting the standards by 1985." For the first time he raised the possibility that the Government might help Detroit develop new engines and designs by allocating federal funds for research and development. But he stopped short of relaxing the Government's rigorous regulatory schedule...
Even when they live at home, quadriplegics and other severely paralyzed people often must rely on the costly services of attendants to help them with simple everyday chores. Now a young researcher at Tufts-New England Medical Center thinks she has found a cheaper, possibly better way: just as guide dogs serve as eyes for the blind, says Psychologist Mary Joan Willard, 28, so small trained monkeys can act as hands, arms and legs for the handicapped...
...plays. They are intimate with each other only when they are locked in phys ical or verbal violence. In A Prayer for My Daughter, a police detective who could have prevented his daughter's suicide deliberately fails to do so by not answering her radio call for help. In Fathers and Sons, a mythic play about Wild Bill Hickok, neither friendship nor love escapes the carnage. In Babe's Civil War play Rebel Women, General Sherman says, "I have no passion for war." The plausibility gap in Babe's plays is that almost nothing arouses his characters...