Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, the greying, 57-year-old Allen skillfully ran the state's labyrinthine school system as an independent duchy that critics and supporters alike called "the fourth branch of government." Allen, who controlled schooling from pre-kindergarten through college, raised education expenditures to 40% of the state's $5.4 billion budget and led the fight against Northern de facto segregation. There is no doubt that he plans to exercise equal influence as the nation's top educational official. In his first statement after his appointment, Allen urged "a massive attack on the education needs of the disadvantaged...
...crime rate is already five times higher than in rural areas. Harassed, overworked and underpaid, metropolitan police often are not only unable but unwilling to deal with any except the most serious lawen forcement problems. In Detroit, for ex ample, until the city installed a new computerized data-collecting system, many precinct lieutenants let their officers ignore the most obvious signs of burglary - pry marks on a door - and list only a broken window...
...with contributors grappling with the problems of "The Psychiatrist and the Legal Process" and the perceptions of witnesses in court. "We discovered that the more punitive people in each of our groups had better recall than the less punitive," writes the author, who disputes the idea that the adversary system "can winnow out the truth...
Because the bail system discriminates against the poor, Italy, Denmark and Sweden do not employ it. In all three nations, however, magistrates have the power to detain a man after his arrest. In Italy, lawyers have protested that too many persons are imprisoned for long periods and, if they are later declared innocent, may not recover damages for false imprisonment. Even in Britain, where a man may obtain his release by merely promising to pay bail, judges have broad power to lock up persons whom they consider dangerous. That such a system can be abused has been dramatically demonstrated...
...Secretary of Defense Laird has halted construction of an anti-ballistic missile base in Reading, a Boston suburb. No further work will proceed at the site, the first of 14 planned around the country, pending completion of a general review of defense strategy in early March. The Sentinel ABM system, ineffective, wasteful, and unwisely provocative to the Soviet Union, should be severely curtailed...