Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of what she termed her "perfect academic record" and the accompanying letter from her doctor, Petri was turned down by the Cornell, Duke, Columbia and Tufts Med Schools...
...and/or radiation therapy and must periodically return to the hospital for several days or even weeks. The patients are carefully screened. They must be able to walk about, eat and bathe without assistance, follow their varying schedules for medications, keep their rooms neat and plan their own amusements. In spite of the unit's lack of amenities, its occupancy rate is 95%, higher than the rest of the hospital, and a waiting list is rapidly building...
...began to keep track of crime in the 1930s, there were not even any national figures to show these changes. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports, though imperfect, reveal some remarkable trends. For example, during the 1930s, reported rates of robbery and burglary declined more or less steadily in spite of (or perhaps because of) adverse economic conditions. In the 1960s the reported rates of these crimes rose despite (or again, perhaps because of) general prosperity...
...1830s. Earlier, we dealt with the problem by creating new institutions-the police, the prison, the asylum, corporations, the mass political party, local self-government-through which to control dangerous impulses and channel constructive ones. Today there are virtually no institutions left to invent: crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what parents, neighbors, and friends had failed to do, patrolmen, wardens, counselors and psychiatrists could provide...
...spite of Howe's anti-revisionist contention that these strikes transformed the consciousness of thousands of immigrant workers, what remains crucial is that the Jewish socialist goals were never realized. Consequently workers turned to the more traditionally American channels where they gained at the polls what they lost in ideological consistency. Howe traces the gradual compromise of radical values in the ever-narrowing circles of influence between the reformers and the Tammany machine. Belle Moscowitz, charming New York's governor Al Smith onto a course of social betterment, replaced the self-educated worker as the Jewish version of political success...