Word: treat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After surveying the existing correctional facilities, the task force in that field is developing "a model to serve as a blueprint for the future," including specialized methods of treating different types of offenders and programs for job-training during the day outside prisons. The commission will urge correction officials, according to one staff member, "to try as much as possible to treat people in the community," and give them an opportunity to lead some kind of productive life beyond the jail walls...
Speed in no way compromises thor oughness. Dr. Morris Collen, coordina tor of the program, reports that fully half of the 40,000 patients seen annually have "clinically significant abnormali ties, conditions which the physicians will want to treat." Kaiser's cost is approx imately $25 per patient, and the health-plan members pay virtually nothing...
...Naturally," said Dr. Bowes, "the less organized will treat their hi-fi set rather like the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol. To many it has a sexual connotation. Perhaps in the twiddling of knobs there may be a masturbatory equivalent. Certainly the ability to take control of a situation relieves anxiety, and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when with the flick of a wrist he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with...
...compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A.'s Educational Policies Commission, charges that "the prestige hierarchy in education is inverted-and when we finally treat the elementary school as our first priority, we will have a true revolution in American education...
...news: the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria that can foil several antibiotics at once. The disturbing explanation is that certain germs "catch" this power of resistance simply by contact with one another. As a result, some infections of the intestinal and genitourinary tracts are becoming tougher than ever to treat...