Word: suggest
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...Children's Hearings Project operates out of the Cambridge, Somerville, and Malden Juvenile Courts. It has been funded since its first cases in June 1981 by the Ford Foundation and other private grants Probation officers refer CHINS cases to Project case coordinators, who suggest to the parties involved the mediation alternative. Project director Sandra A. Wixted says that "very disorganized families, or families with severe mental problems, tend to screen themselves out": either they do not accept mediation or they fail to appear for scheduled mediation sessions...
Judge Poitrast suggests that the general problem with programs like the Children's Hearing Project is that their actual effectiveness is much more limited than their impressive goals and credentials would suggest. He points out that a large majority of CHINS cases have long histories of experience with social service agencies which "failed to do anything for them. The reason DSS is funding the project is that it [DSS] has failed in this area. It can't handle these kids either. The agencies just let them go. They don't come in for appointments, you have to keep after them...
...Spanish election was closely watched in other international capitals, particularly since it came in the wake of Socialist victories in France, Greece and Sweden and seemed to some observers to suggest a leftward swing in Western European politics. Most analysts, however, saw it as part of a mixed trend in which widespread economic problems tended to work against incumbent governments (see following story...
...laboratory dishes, the role played by oncogenes in causing tumors in the body itself remains unproved. Evidence is, however, mounting. Researchers have known for two decades that certain forms of cancer are associated with certain visible changes in the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in human cells. Recent studies suggest, for example, that in some lung cancers a piece is often missing from chromosome No. 3. Better-documented changes occur in certain leukemias and lymphomas. In one form of chronic leukemia, a piece of chromosome 22 changes place with a piece of chromosome 9. In most patients with a cancer...
Mailing-list brokers may suggest any of thousands of combinations of consumers. One popular strategy is to target mailings to households living in zip-code areas where the U.S. census has determined that high-income, free-spending families reside, such as New York City's fashionable Upper East Side (10021) or the ultra-upscale retirement community of Naples, Fla. (33940). The Census Bureau sells nationwide tabulations for as much as $250,000 each. Says Dallas' Horchow, whose mailing list has grown from 48,000 to 1.5 million names: "Without a solid list, a mail-order company just doesn...