Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rubin who stepped into the Asian flames with the U.S.-led IMF at his side. Foreign policy (at least until recently) slipped from State's purview into Treasury's, and while Madeleine Albright stumbled around the Middle East and Iraq, Rubin grabbed the headlines in Asia, where the real action...
While the council's action fell short of the protestors' demands, which included the allocation of $10 million to the Affordable Housing Trust, they cheered when the order passed...
...this stuff addictive? Psychologists say some players of intense video games show symptoms similar to those induced by drug taking or other pleasurable activities. Participating in the action of a game--pushing buttons to score, shoot, bomb, fight or fly--entails neuromuscular coordination. "So the brain not only is seeing the images and getting stimulated, but it's also practicing a response," says Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist at UCLA. "When the person is exposed to these violent media stimuli and it excites the psychoneurological receptors, it causes the person to feel this excitement, to feel a kind of high...
...Dave Sanders, the teacher who bled to death while waiting three hours for help. Yet any suit against the police would again run into immunity problems, as well as the reluctance of courts to second-guess police on tactics. "It's not like Waco, where law enforcement's own action produced the death," says Denver trial lawyer Bill Keating...
...stigma that prevents our kids from getting the help they need for their mental health. If we knew a child had a broken arm, we would take that child to an emergency room. And if we know a child is depressed or alienated, we need to take emergency action and stay involved with the problem. One of the young killers in Colorado is reported to have once been prescribed an antidepressant, but we don't know if he had stopped taking it or what other kind of treatment he might have been receiving...