Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, says the new series of programmed-instruction books he has developed will teach children how to write faster by giving them an "instant correction" as they learn. With present teaching methods, students must wait for a teacher's corrections to see where they have made mistakes. Skinner's invisible ink system will solve this problem by giving the student an "immediate report" on his progress, Skinner says...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...
...South Viet Nam. Coming in the wake of the New Year's truce, the ferocity of the action was hardly unexpected; both sides always use the few day's respite of truce to position themselves to come out fighting hard. This time the Communists did not even wait for the truce to expire. More than 170 truce violations-and a major Viet Cong attack two hours before the truce ended-made the New Year's lull the bloodiest of the Viet Nam war's eight ceasefires. Despite their initiative, the Communists lost most of the blood...
...week's end, no formal negotiations were under way between Cuba and Bolivia. If the Cubans are interested, they will likely wait a while to avoid the public embarrassment of negotiating with a government that they have been trying so hard to overthrow. Whether or not Castro will part with Matos, he would certainly like to see Debray freed. A longtime Castro confidant, Debray traveled frequently to Cuba and spent months interviewing the dictator for his book Revolution in the Revolution...
...Economics professor said "about as much damage was caused by water as by the fire itself." Five staff members who used the building said that their books were still wet, and one said he would have to "wait until the books defrost" to tell how many are still usable...