Word: actually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucracy, not at the top. A program chief hears a complaint and summons a committee, which calls in lawyers. New regulations are drafted, then sent to a boss who approves them. The regulations are printed; sent to the field; and one morning a federal authority is insisting-to take actual cases-that ice cannot be added to drinking water, chickens cannot be processed in rooms with tile floors, fire extinguishers are to be lowered 6 in., and cowboys must work within 5 min. ride of a toilet. The reasons for, and meanings of, the regulations have been lost somewhere between...
...characters in Night-Side, Oates' latest collection of stories, lie on the boundary between existential despair and actual insanity. They are too sick to be tragic, but they are normal enough for us to recognize ourselves in them. The heroine of "The Snowstorm," for example, is a young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been...
Psychologist John Cone of the University of West Virginia has found that electricity customers tend to cut down if they are reminded-constantly, each day-of actual dollars spent. They fail to respond to a mere general reminder to save their money. Says Cone: "What people need is more specific feed back about how much [energy] they are really using on a daily basis." Americans, in other words, must not merely be told but convinced of their self-interest before they will alter their habitual behavior even in a minor...
...hoping. When asked at what age it is "permissible" for a single young man to start having sex, 34% said he should wait until marriage, and 26% were not sure. Forty-two percent thought young women should wait until marriage, and 24% were not sure. (A 1976 survey of actual practice indicated that 55% of unmarried women had had intercourse by age 19. For men of that age, the estimates run to at least...
...year-old Ames contest pits third-year law school students in arguments over fictional cases based on actual cases involving constitutional issues. This year's Ames competition will address the issue of the guardianship of a minor who has left her family to join a religious sect...