Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their basic similarity of outlook, volunteers reveal subtle yet important differences in the way they go about their work. No two volunteers use the same classroom methods, interest themselves in the same activities, bring the same devotion to their task, or put the same value on their contribution.... The spirit that the volunteers brought to their work varied so widely that one sometimes could hardly believe that two Peace Corpsmen had been in the same country...
Allies, Not Adversaries. When pressed to define his political outlook, Brooke offers such portmanteau labels as "creative moderate" or "a liberal with a conservative bent." While accepting the humanitarian goals of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, he faults the Administration's approach to helping the poor as "aspirin?it relieves the pain, but it doesn't cure." Both domestic-welfare and foreign-aid policies, he reasons, should be oriented more toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that...
...tape and prejudice continue to create some snarls and snafus, but the outlook for people who really want somebody else's children is brighter than ever. Federal welfare officials estimate that 2,000,000 of the 80 million Americans under 18 live with adoptive parents. The number of adoptions has increased more than 50% in the past decade, from 93,000 to 142,000 annually. Reason for the rise is a basic shift in supply and demand: more babies than ever are available for adoption. When it comes to prospective adoptive parents, says Louise Guenther, coordinator of Washington state...
...discrimination against the girl students. Large numbers of university girls study domestic science. All day long what they study is how to marry wealthy husbands of their choice, how to manage their home affairs, and how to help their husbands climb up the ladder. These represent the outlook on life of many an American girl student...
...through existing congregations in the South. Those who indicate a willingness to go are screened to make sure they will be able to adjust to the new community. At the same time, church representatives canvass likely Northern communities to check on the availability of jobs and housing and the outlook for proselyting. Stamford, for example, was chosen because it had a good labor market for professional and white-collar workers...