Word: repeating
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Economists generally agree that governments should shun utopianism and aim at reducing inflation and unemployment to bearable rates?to perhaps 5% for both in America. The U.S. should not repeat a mistake of some past years, when the Government continued to stimulate the economy even after the jobless rate had fallen to 4%, in the hope of getting it still lower; that policy fueled inflation. Completely "full" employment is impossible because some people lack skills that can be marketed, and still others take time off while shifting between jobs...
...they were rehabilitated along stereotyped conventions." Concludes Columbia Sociologist Robert Martinson after studying hundreds of programs for 20 years: "The prison which makes every effort at rehabilitation succeeds no better than the prison which leaves its inmates to rot." Succeeds, that is, in reducing the huge number of repeat offenders (70% of inmates). Improved behavior inside the walls turns out to be no indication of behavior after prison. As Mattick says, "It is hard to train an aviator in a submarine...
Almost everyone has had the near maddening frustration of hearing a nameless melody repeat itself diabolically inside the mind's ear. Relief is on its way. Denys Parsons' Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes, promises its introduction, works even for people who "think that A Flat Major is an army officer who has had the misfortune to be run over by a tank...
...handling of American policy during the October War gave clear in cation of how he analyzed the situation Kissinger saw another massive Israeli victory as potentially detrimental to both achieving a settlement in the area, and more importantly, to the cause of detente. Should the Israelis be about to repeat the rout of 1967, he believed, the Soviet Union would intervene, even at the risk of a direct confrontation with the United States. The development which would have pleased Kissinger most then was a modest but definitive Israeli defeat. With this in mind, he and Secretary of Defense James...
Explained a White House aide: "The aim was for our action to be read by North Korean President Kim II Sung as well as by the Cambodians." Moreover, Ford and Kissinger were insistent that the U.S. would not repeat its failure to use force to recover the U.S. Navy surveillance ship Pueblo from North Korea in 1968. Said a Defense Department official rhetorically: "What if the Cambodians used the Mayaguez crew the way that the North Koreans used the Pueblo crew?* I'd hate to think what would happen to the remaining American position in Asia. Yet, that...