Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior of juveniles, for example, is more substantially influenced by family life than by surrounding neighborhoods. An unhappy or separated family is therefore a danger sign, as is early anti-social behavior or a poor school record...
...their study of adult male criminals, the University pair found three unusual criteria which seem to determine success or failure in correctional prisons. Foreign born offenders adapt better to correctional treatment than native ones do; sons of poor families adapt better than sons of moderate or wealthy ones; and men who started work at an early age adapt better than those who started later...
...Mendoza built the Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Caracas, supported it for months out of his own pocket. Other philanthropic works: five schools, scholarships and agricultural research. Recently, he promoted $6.000,000 in private capital to finance a low-cost housing project for poor Venezuelans. Mendoza served as a civilian member of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, but resigned in dismay four days after Vice President Richard Nixon was mobbed (TIME, May 26, 1958). "He is," says one high government official, "the first case of a Venezuelan capitalist with the modern...
...uses. One hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...
...even more heroic rescue was required in 1 958 for France. Weakened by the wars in Algeria and Viet Nam and poor fiscal management, France was close to financial collapse when Jacobsson hustled to the rescue. He arranged a package of $655 million in credit from the Fund, the European Payments Union and the U.S. With the loan went some detailed recommendations on how France could put its fiscal house in order. It did so well that after De Gaulle came to power he was able to devalue and stabilize the franc. At other times, Jacobsson rescued the Danes, Dutch...