Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During pre-primary week, McCarthy made a strong appeal to potential Republican crossover voters-so strong that Richard Nixon plaintively urged: "As a Republican, vote Republican." Many were clearly thinking of doing otherwise. At a Madison rally for McCarthy, the wife of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Warren Knowles was an enthusiastic listener...
...bite on an average black-and-white TV set increased by $8, to $50, pushed up the total purchase tag to just above $200. The government's cut on a $4,860 diamond bracelet is now $1,620 v. $1,080 in pre-Jenkins times; not surprisingly, the jewelers passed the increases along to the customers. The new $1,270 tag on British Motors' Austin Mini reflects a $48 rise in the old $233 purchase tax. Not forgetting the rich, Jenkins also imposed a new one-year levy on investment income, creating a situation in which...
...community-based corrections." Two-thirds of all offenders are already being supervised outside the walls, on probation or parole. But probation is still widely regarded as clemency rather than treatment; only one-third of American courts have reasonably adequate probation staffs. Burdened with over 100 cases apiece, plus pre-sentence reports for judges, many probation officers can give offenders only ten or 15 minutes, once or twice a month. To cut average caseloads to 35 per officer, the commission urges a quick and major staff increase - sevenfold in misdemeanor cases, which now too often turn jail graduates into prison felons...
...general, sentences should be far more flexible. An American Bar Association committee recently urged maximum five-year terms, except for dangerous offenders.*But even with good pre-sentence reports, trial judges cannot predict whether x years will suffice. Some countries require written sentence opinions for higher-court review. American law should probably hand the job to penal experts. Federal judges already may send convicted persons to classification centers before sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most...
...reason that since "Harvard gives no academic credit for journalism courses, pre-law courses, or pre-business courses, it should give none for premilitary courses either." Harvard does indeed give these courses, and it gives credit for them. Certainly you will admit that the decision to teach the professions in the graduate schools rather than in the College is based on pragmatic grounds, not grounds of principle. Engineering, for instance, is a profession in which undergraduates may take their degree...