Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those sketchy and controversial projections may be overly pessimistic, but they have raised large questions. Is unemployment really as bad as the cold numbers suggest? How are people coping? What groups of Americans are being hurt most? And what should the U.S. do about the problem...
Hugh Sidey's comments concerning the week's activities at the White House [March 3] sickened me. Does Mr. Sidey suggest that the President, Senators, Congressmen, economists, et al., subsist on tuna casserole until solutions to the nation's economic ills are found...
...just lost his job slammed his baby against a wall until it lost consciousness. An Atlanta real estate agent, under severe stress when his commissions dropped drastically, lost his temper and beat his five-year-old daughter so severely she had to be hospitalized. Such incidents suggest that economic strain is an increasingly important factor in child abuse. Says Jerry White, director of protection services for the Georgia human resources department: "It's a consequence of the economic crisis that people do not think about...
...presidential predecessors, and--though I have had less occasion to see him--I have found him the most responsive and open of the four. I do not understand why an employee of his office much less one who is neither an alumnus nor a number of the faculty, should suggest--and thereby help to create--a kind of rift which seems far from evident to many of us who stand closer to the academic scene. If I presumed to offer any advice, it would simply be that Mr. Bok pay no attention to Mr. Bernays, fire some of his functionaries...
...short, professional education for the public sector is a task that cannot be left to a single graduate school. It requires the participation of a number of different faculties within the University. And yet, our surveys of alumni in a variety of fields suggest that there is a common body of knowledge and general skills that can contribute to the education of policy analysts and administrators whether they seek their training in a school of government, a faculty of education, a department of city planning, or a school of public health. It is to this basic core of instruction that...