Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to assess. Canfield and Weberman claim that things would have been very different had Kennedy lived: he would have kept us out of Vietnam, secured detente earlier, and inaugurated massive social welfare measures. This is difficult to swallow; the legislation of the Kennedy administration does not suggest real social reform, and while JFK might not have defended the American empire in Vietnam, there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere. But the assassination and the CIA power it reveals certainly refute the claims that American democracy...
...most likely this one per cent will keep their guns in defiance of the law anyway. Furthermore, it is doubtful the law would be enforced against this one percent, because few laws, let alone gun laws, are enforced against the reckless criminal today. Common notions of justice would suggest, however, that the criminal one per cent be punished and the law abiding 99 per cent, who are only trying to defend themselves, be left free...
...Rhodes committees look for people who won't build a wall around themselves, who will give something of their experience to their communities," he says, and when the Rhodes gives people an advantage in getting jobs, he suggest, that "if it's an advantage that's fairly given, maybe that's a fair advantage...
...suggest, in opposition to President Ford's brave talk [Oct. 6], that this country needs a live President more than any more dead martyrs...
...doctors, who have studied the family closely, still do not know either cause or cure; all they can do is attempt to relieve the symptoms with drugs-and suggest that victims who have not yet had children consider forgoing having families of their...