Word: processed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafin has taken up many of the Howland report recommendations in the last year. He has encouraged job advancement through a new open competitive process involving a written and oral test. One sergeant has already been promoted and Chafin intends to fill that vacancy this November. In addition, he has sent officers and supervisors to training schools in the metropolitan area for instruction in fingerprinting, criminal investigation, supervisory skills and arson--a move he claims has helped to increase the officer's sense of job security. The union now regrets its push for promotions since sergeants and lieutenants are salaried...
...wary about the shift to the more professional image, and nostalgically refer to the days when they could fight crime without relying on computer printouts. Their persistent dissatisfaction with the new system--responding to crime determined by problem areas the computer identifies--stems from errors in the data feeding process. When a robbery that occurred at Winthrop House at 2 a.m. wasn't reported to the police until 5 p.m. the next day, the computer would read that the crime happened when it was reported, rather than when it occurred...
...about the floor to simulate the way the bugs use their antennae to sniff out trails left by fellow ants. Though this may strike some as collegiate show-and-tell, Wilson asserts that by introducing actual research to his students, they can gain exposure to the imaginative and active process of scientific experimentation, yet still "talk in terms of general principles...
...most powerful figures in America in a contest against each other," White added, "the potential for a bloody mangling nomination process is there...
...century Italian Giovanni Battista Vico, have constructed cyclical theories of civilizations that rise up in vigor, flourish, mature and then fall into decadence. Such theories may sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict such a leap of civilization as the Renaissance. Ultimately, the process of decadence remains a mystery: Why has the tribe of Jews endured for so many centuries after the sophisticated culture of the Hittites disappeared? Richard Gilman can be granted his central point: "that 'decadence' is an unstable word and concept whose significations and weights continually change in response...