Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them. "The North Vietnamese are afraid of snakes," sneered one Marine. "That's why they carry them flashlights." Whatever their purpose, the lights provided excellent targets for artillery and air strikes. To date, Operation Prairie has killed 943 Reds, and the Marines have taken moderate casualties in the process...
...laser beams have already been used as exact surgical scalpels; at the National Institutes of Health, laser light is also being showered on cultures grown for only four hours in tiny, 2-mm. capillary tubes. The resulting scattered light can be read for presence of bacteria. Because the process is so highly accurate, the cultures do not have to be nourished for days until they grow large enough for the disease-causing microbes to be detectable. The careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start, a machine built on the principle of the cardiac...
...does it seem likely that the universities will continue to play as limited a role in this field as in the past. There is an increasing demand for those who combine an interest in teaching, research and direct participation in the process of social change. There is great excitement and satisfaction in devising, testing and helping to implement projects which may make the difference between jail aind freedom for thousands of people or which may result in reducing the frightful burden crime imposes on both the victims and the offenders. I can personally attest that the intellectual demands...
...problems of crime resources of money, understanding and ability commensurate with the scope of the need. But it is my strong belief that if the criminal system can be brought out of the dark, the unfairness and futility which marks its operation today will begin to yield to the process of change...
...accept pleas of guilty in other cases in return for relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether to arrest in the first place -- that constitutes the great bulk of the administration of justice in this country. There are virtually no rules or guidelines governing the decisions made in the more than 90% of the cases which...