Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began, some of the most idealistic students set an example for their elders by avidly seeking reform through the political process. What they found instead was a seeming national swerve toward conservatism. The young, the poor, blacks and antiwar dissenters had profoundly affected government-something they once felt powerless to do. But then came a counterreaction of other Americans who feel threatened by change and civil disorders, to say nothing of youth's drug culture and new sexual freedom. As if to further dis illusion youth, the No. 1 domestic political issue may well be "law and order" rather...
...ordinary catfish. It seems to thrive in brackish as well as fresh water, and eats shrimp, crayfish, small minnows-practically anything that happens along. When biologists poison its ponds, it indignantly leaps from the water and starts across country during the daytime, sometimes dying of sunburn in the process. On land, where it forages nocturnally for snails and pine needles, the catfish is at its most pugnacious. There are even some far-out reports that it has attacked curious dogs sniffing...
Such tactics often prove remarkably successful. Last fall 800 Los Angeles County probation officers deliberately dragged their heels on the job, winning a reduction of case loads in the process. Far more dramatic is the current slowdown by Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controllers, which has snarled airports in metropolitan New York and elsewhere with flight delays. Unhappy over a manpower shortage and congested skyways, the traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional...
Minor League Activity. Nowhere have slowdowns caused more trouble than in New York City. Last summer more than 3,000 city welfare employees staged a "work-in," during which they showed up at the office but refused to process cases. Unhappy over slow progress in contract talks, 115 nurses at two city hospitals phoned in sick one day this month, an epidemic that forced doctors and supervisory personnel to take over their chores. Three weeks ago, embroiled in a dispute over how many new fire fighters the force should hire, uniformed firemen and the city averted a threatened slowdown only...
...Rivers, the crustaceous South Carolina Congressman, and on Connecticut's Senator Thomas J. Dodd. They cite Rivers as a classic example of the seniority system gone awry. A man of limited talent, Rivers rose to his exalted position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee only through the process of aging and the political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service on the military committees like a tick...