Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, however, already has a system of surveillance, in operation since 1963, which appears to be an effective alternative to the Surgeon General's approach. At Harvard, the Committee on Research Responsibility convenes only to discuss experiments of a potentially dangerous nature -- involving drugs, electric shock, sleep deprivation, etc. -- and not those that are patently harmless. The administrative official of the Committee screens all proposals, referring to the full board only those which require its attention. The others are approved automatically. This accelerates the entire process and saves the members of the executive board undue administrative work...
Vorenberg's first and most important problem -- his "sharpest shock" -- has been simply the lack of accurate information about crime. He believes that in order to suggest constructive changes in the law, and in methods of law enforcement, the commission must analyze the nature and causes of crime--the volume and effects of different kinds of offenses, and the characteristics of victims and offenders...
...expected to grow old gracefully in the practice or teaching of corporation law, the confrontation with crime and what we do (and do not do) about it has been a series of shocks. The sharpest shock has been discovering the extent to which we lack even the most essential knowledge about crime and the degree to which we make do with untested assumptions, myths and oversimplifications. In my own work with the Commission and in an earlier assignment as Director of the Justice Department's new Office of Criminal Justice, I seem to have spent most of my time trying...
...neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...Russians were almost breathless in their shock at the events in China...