Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Feelings were so high, with the two groups against each other, we just didn't feel at ease in there in the jury room together," Miss Richards said later. By her account, "three women thought the law the defendants were indicted under was unconstitutional." That is a question for an appeals court, she explained to them, not for the jury. "So we agreed we should not be a hung jury. We decided to compromise, and it was just a question of how to compromise." Said another juror, Mrs. Ruth Petersen, 44, who favored conviction on both counts...
Dental Comparison. Wishful thinking may well account for some of the impressive results that N.A. claims. The organization defines the neurotic as "any person whose emotions interfere with his functioning in any way to any degree whatsoever as recognized by him" -a definition unscientific enough to horrify formal psychotherapists. Hence the program tends to attract people who want to believe that emotional problems are as correctable as a toothache-a comparison frequently drawn by N.A. members. "You have to keep going back to the dentist if you want to take good care of your teeth," says Grover. No one "graduates...
Deceptive Index. Economic growth -the increase in total output of goods and services-is in many ways a misleading index. "Real" G.N.P., that is dollar growth minus price inflation, is a more meaningful indicator of prosperity. But no index takes into account many intangible gains: the benefits of wiping out a disease, for example, or the fact that U.S. workers have achieved an extra 22 hours a week of leisure time since the start of the century...
...National Bureau of Economic Research, which was once headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, is trying to revise the system of economic accounting so that it will gauge the cost of noxious factories, landscape wreckers, noise and other "disproducts." The job will not be quick or easy. "I look forward to the day when statisticians add up the national accounts to take account of the depreciation of the environment," said Burns to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week. "When we learn to do this, we will discover that our gross national product has been deceiving...
...suggested that the dining hall be placed on a discount system similar to the one used by the Coop. Under this system, prices would be set to allow Harkness to break even under normal loads. Students would charge meals to their term bills and, after each meal, a computerized account system would reduced the price charged if a profit has been made...