Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Basically, Slack's approach has been to abandon the traditional and futile doctor-patient relationship, substituting a novel employer-employee status. He actually pays the delinquents to serve as subjects for a "research project." His success is based on a phenomenon known to scientists as the "Hawthorne effect" which shows that the subjects in a scientific experiment change during the course of the project merely because they are the objects of special attention. Their very association with a study which has their cooperation induces a general improvement over a period of time. Where the experimenter is able to gain...
...come from, and the great Northern hordes clutching ticket stubs. If Miss Baez is no missing link, at least she is a quiet liason. Neither overly ethnic, nor over-arranged, she sings in a clear, narrative manner and her control of her extraordinarily rich voice achieves a highly dramatic effect...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...
Since tooth decay is virtually universal, insurance companies have shied away from dental coverage, figuring that the insured would rush to the dentist as soon as the policy was in effect. Continental found that this was not so. It ran a test plan for two years for 2,450 employees and dependents of the Dentists' Supply Co. of New York at its York, Pa. plant. Continental found that the fear of the dentist's drill was the actuary's best friend. People who had made it a habit to visit the dentist continued...
Despite angry protests from students (whose defiance, however, was largely verbal), the faculty stuck to its ban on smoking in lecture halls and classrooms. President Goheen noted that the new restrictions matched those at Harvard and Yale, but quickly explained that they were put in effect only to save money on refinishing the tobacco-stained floors of classrooms and lecture halls...