Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue that vaccination offers only haphazard protection. Because flu viruses mutate so frequently, vaccines produced to combat one strain may be less effective against a genetic variant that appears later in the same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control: "Ford made the vaccine sound a little rosier than...
...common and in the eyes of many so legitimate as to constitute, by 1776, a conventional method of political action. The Boston Tea Party was hardly an isolated case: the mob also rioted to keep food from being shipped out of the colony during lean times, to prevent men from being impressed into the British navy, and to halt the collection of unpopular customs duties. The men who made up these mobs were, as likely as not, also the men to be found sitting in New England town meetings and on local juries...
...have endured to the present. The community had ceased to be self-regulating and had turned over more and more functions once performed by families and neighbors to policemen, wardens, penitentiaries, almshouses and asylums. The police could maintain order-the mob was no longer tolerated-but they could not prevent crime; they could enforce laws, but not unpopular ones; criminals might fear prison, but they were not reformed by it. With immigration approaching flood levels, the normal disputes over the nature of public order and the sources of criminality were intensified by ethnic cleavages and the distaste for "foreigners." Though...
...great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what parents, neighbors, and friends had failed to do, patrolmen, wardens, counselors and psychiatrists could provide. We struggled to maintain the hope that the police and schools could prevent crime and that prisons and treatment programs could rehabilitate criminals...
...were wrong. We are coming to the unhappy realization that the police can rarely prevent crime and can solve at best only a small fraction of offenses. We now know that prisons cannot rehabilitate offenders. Hundreds of experimental studies on the treatment of criminals reach the same conclusion: no matter what form rehabilitation takes-vocational or academic training, individual or group counseling, long or short sentences, probation or parole-it does not work. We must finally concede that it is naive to suppose we can take a convict who has devoted a good part of his life to misbehavior...