Word: projected
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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...
...pilot project completed last spring, Slack and his associates first made a study to learn exactly who the juvenile ringleaders were in Cambridge. Ten "hard-core" delinquents were then offered paying jobs of one hour a day which Slack explained frankly to each boy: "You take tests and tell us about yourself. We're interested in finding out about the kids in the neighborhood, especially those who have been in trouble.... You can quit anytime if you want to, and if you don't like any of the work just tell...
...Paris a coolly hostile National Assembly met to hear De Gaulle's ministers explain his project to create an independent $1.2 billion French nuclear force. To complaints that the plan was too dear, too meager and, above all, too disruptive of vital European defense unity, Premier Michel Debre replied plaintively: "France is not going toward isolationism, toward neutralism." But since De Gaulle's constitution empowers him to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections if his wish is not granted, the bill was likely to pass...
...biggest-and most controversial-booster and builder ever to hit Hawaii. He has already built about $50 million worth of hotels, hospitals, plants and housing developments and, at 78, feels that he is only beginning. Last week Kaiser showed off the first houses in his most ambitious project: Hawaii Kai, a projected $350 million dream city on the eastern end of Oahu Island, to be built on 6,000 acres between picturesque Maunalua Bay and Kuapa Fishpond...
...Martin. "After I had left T.J.." explained Novelist Metalious, "I sat for a long time in my house in New Hampshire. Last spring one day George came to my house and said, 'Now are you ready to come home?' I said, ;Yes.' " Her current project: a spicy expose of indecencies, rampant and couchant, among the winter colony on Martha's Vineyard...