Word: retesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved, these nonaggressive convicts could safely be paroled from custody-and from an environment bristling with guns and guards that provides a spur to violence. Now a psychiatrist at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Kinzel has applied to the New York State Department of Correction to retest his theory on prison inmates whose susceptibility to violence will not be known to him beforehand. By measuring their intolerance to physical intrusion, Kinzel is confident that he can pick them out of the crowd...
...private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots, the airlines select only one applicant out of 20, spend $1,000 an hour to train him, retest him every six months, send him back to flight school once a year, and pay him up to $40,000 a year. With rare exceptions, the pilots are well worth it. Says Jerome Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation and one of the nation's top air-safety...