Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional approach to prison government," Silberman writes, "is that by expecting the worst, it succeeds in bringing out the worst." Prison government might proceed more efficiently and humanely, indeed more constitutionally, by treating inmates like citizens in a community...
...most states parental rights to discipline their children are limited only by a patchwork of legal injunctions against serious physical injury and flagrant neglect. Members of the protective service must hide their own anger and proceed with a blend of cajolery, compassion and very limited powers of compulsion as they try to protect abused children. The welfare department's official charge, though, is with nothing less than "preserving healthy family life" in the state. Often, helping children means trying to bring parents to such a condition of emotional stability that they will no longer want to beat their kids...
...Species. A new Cabinet level committee was created to balance economic factors against environmental concerns when dams and other projects conflict with the Endangered Species Act, which protects birds, fish and animals that are threatened with extinction. Congress directed the agency to decide within four months whether work can proceed on the $120 million Tellico dam in Tennessee, despite its threat to survival of the three-inch snail darter...
...also unhappy that the Egyptians demanded a precise timetable for Israeli military withdrawal from the Sinai but were unwilling to accept a similar schedule for the establishment of full diplomatic relations. The Israelis want to exchange ambassadors immediately following the signing of the peace treaty. The Egyptians want to proceed cautiously, first with liaison offices or missions, then with consulates and finally embassies...
Norwood said he expects the grievance process to extend five to six weeks. If the ruling is against the beards, he said yesterday that he would proceed outside University channels to fight...