Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Already, thousands of people in the parched northeastern region of Karamoja have starved to death. Says Melissa Wells, head of the U.N. development program in Uganda: "Famine is looming in West Nile as well." There are severe food shortages even in Kampala, where the average wage is only $67 a...
Frequently mentioned as a possible member of Republican Administrations, Feldstein is an advocate of less Government regulation of the private sector of the economy . A major focus of his research has been on the American Social Security system. He contends that the Government's retirement program has transferred vital...
Montana-born Thurow is a professor of economics and management at M.I.T. and was an adviser to George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign. He is the author of one of this year's most provocative books on the economy, The Zero-Sum Society. In it he argues in...
In The Uses of Enchantment, Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim addresses those problems by examining the implications of fairy tales. Weary of bedtime books that ignore or sugar-coat the real world, Bettelheim ransacks the stories for Freudian subtexts. In his view the Oedipal drama plays itself out in the giants that...
Society's altered states have brought unpredictable caroms. Western Publishing's Daniels notes, "More women are working, and there are more surrogate parents. They're paying more attention to their children's development and to the books they buy. More children have two sets of parents...