Word: socio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This tendency, Oglesby feels, derives from the image we have of our role in the socio-economic structure of the world. "The U.S. sees itself as a frontier of western civilization," an image that connotes a conflict between good and evil. "The wilderness," or what we must conquer to preserve our society, lies anywhere that Western values have not yet penetrated...
...Angeles is a unique metropolis. Unlike New York, where diverse number of socio-economic groups are packed into a small area and where life is arranged vertically, Los Angeles sprawls like a can of spilled paint over 455 square miles, and neighborhoods are divided and connected by her inadequate answer to the subways: the freeways...
...Maintain the motivation of most beginning students to help suffering humanity by introducing them early in their training to patients. This should be done in exercises designed to increase students' awareness of the emotional and socio-economic aspects of the preclinical sciences to pathophysiology of disease. An increasing responsibility for the care of patients, as rapidly as background and clinical skills permit, should also be provided...
From Thomas's viewpoint, the greatest benefit from applying computers to large socio-economic problems like overpopulation lies in their ability to consider a vast number of background factors in terms of an equally large array of alternative actions. A tremendous backlog of information on actual socio-economic conditions in different areas has to be acquired before a computer model for development can be produced. Presently, the center is operating one field station in Egypt; Thomas hopes to establish other outposts in Sweeden, India, the Pacific islands. Latin America, and Africa...
...Volunteers contribute significantly to basic long-term socio-economic development in the Peruvian Andes, creating and strengthening organizations so that they can continue to solve local problems even after the last Volunteer has departed...