Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governed by 1,400 political units-states, cities, counties and townships, plus scores of special-purpose districts that control everything from airports to garbage. The U.S. has 80,000 such "governments," many of them created to focus efficiently on narrow problems. In pursuing their own interests, these bodies often worsen environmental problems, such as smog and dirty rivers, that cut across political boundaries, Responsibility is fragmented in a maze of separate, unequal and overlapping jurisdictions...
...Actually, Vaseline can worsen the effects of both Mace and CS if not wiped off immediately...
...third attitude toward the new order, revolution. The liberals, eyes on the future, tended to be insensitive to the suffering, material and psychological, caused by the march of the new order. Marx was not. He believed, incorrectly, as it turned out, that the material condition of the workers must worsen as capitalism developed. But his observations about psychological "alienation" in a changing society have proved much more durable...
...Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact that police gunfire can prolong and worsen the initial disturbance is often overlooked...
Since attempts to impose toilet discipline often worsen emotional problems in psychotic children, Bettelheim has removed all rules about bodily elimination. Elimination any time, anywhere, is preferred to withholding or self-inflicted constipation. If a child hits, kicks or bites, he is not fought or punished but is pacified; later his therapists seek the reasons why. Argues Bettelheim: "A spanking achieves a short-range goal, but it has a price tag-degradation and anger -that I am not willing to pay. My task is to build up self-respect. And I believe people do the right thing not because they...