Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also being used by psychologists to help people lose weight, stop smoking and overcome phobias like the fear of flying. If subliminals were put on TV, explains Becker, they could be directed specifically at such killers as obesity, drugs and bad driving. Says he: "We could eliminate weight problems in one generation, reduce auto Insurance...
...created a chaotic situation. People don't know who to turn to for psychological help...
...previous management made bad decisions, "and now they expect somebody else to pick up the bill." Pertec Computer Chairman Ryal Poppa warns, "Soon the Government will be asking us why we complain when they want to regulate our businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs. Says he: "All it would do would be to freeze people...
...Richards became a proponent of Basic English, a simplified form of the language designed to be learned quickly. He taught in China from 1929 to 1931, and returned there last spring to help develop a teacher-training program...
...company bears much of the blame for its own downfall "is a much less difficult problem than someone who has a philosophical objection" to a federal bail-out of a particular company. "We'll just show them the consequences to the government if it doesn't choose to help Chrysler," he said...