Word: tion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Freedoms. In some rural areas, where illiteracy is high, people are still not confident about their new freedoms. In an attempt to explain what the election means, the Armed Forces Movement launched a program last month called dinamizaçã (dynamiza-tion). Army commandos with tanks, planes, trucks and landing barges went into remote regions, putting on exhibition maneuvers to get people together. Explains Captain João Carlos Albuquerque Pinto: "Our teams are apolitical. We only explain democracy. Later the political parties can reach the population themselves. We just tell the people that they can now speak freely because...
Because of the fuel shortage, many people are using their phones instead of their cars to make business calls. Older people, already cruelly pressed by infla tion and often shut in by illness or fear of crime, would be further crimped in their access to the outside. For nearly everyone, it is distressing to contemplate yet another meter clicking away on an ordinary motion of daily life...
...wants to buy, why shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing to have the right of Jews to live in this area, near them, with them and by them. For a while what I see on the West Bank is not a dividing line between two states but a kind...
...ultimate transgression." Redemption, he feels, can come by adopting an attitude of "animating guilt"-a catalyst for transforming destructive old instincts and concepts into constructive new ones. Is such psychic alchemy possible on a national scale? Lifton confesses that he does not know. But he urges that the na tion take his veterans as models...
...brings together pediatricians, psychiatrists, speech and hearing specialists. The institute puts children through complete physical and psychological examinations and tests for learning and perceptual disabilities before staff members meet with parents to set what Dr. Robert Haslam, the institute's director, calls "realistic goals for their habilita-tion." It also provides in-and outpatient services for 140 children. Similar programs are carried out at the Developmental Evaluation Clinic at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, whose director. Dr. Allen Crocker, believes that almost every retarded child can be helped in some way. He spends much...