Word: placement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the North End community in response to the swine flu epidemic of 1918 that ravaged the area. Now it serves as a group care facility, and most of the 38 children, aged four to 12 years, live there for about two years before adoption, or temporary placement with a foster family or in other residential homes...
Quite often, the children maintain a tough facade--a facade that was a necessary ingredient for their survival at home. One social worker described a pre-placement visit to a family: "They peeped out their windows when I came, to see if I was someone they should be afraid of, and they had almost no food in the house, and were living in filth." The one parent caring for the children is usually emotionally disturbed, drug-addicted or alcoholic. Those who abuse their children were often victims themselves, a generation earlier...
...entertainment. Kirk Douglas, as the father, mobilizes a kind of crazy energy he has not displayed since he was a much younger actor; John Cassavetes is deliciously evil as the bureaucrat-villain. De Palma, like Alfred Hitchcock, is a superb technician, sure and subtle in such matters as camera placement and editing. These are skills that are often overlooked when they are not employed in the service of "serious" themes...
Although the academic societies will not be compulsory, they may take an active role in advising, recommending students for placement after graduation and evaluating the curriculum, Med School officials said last week...
...organizations recruit through the school's placement office, through which approximately 40 per cent of last year's graduates found jobs...