Word: affections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years into the position, Bruzelius says she hope she, too, can affect the lives of some of her students...
...committee justify its recommendation in terms of these criteria--would go a long way to ensure consistency in tenure decisions across departments and to reduce the mystery for junior Faculty facing a tenure decision. Such criteria would also be subject to public debate, giving students the ability to affect a process in which they currently have no voice...
...shooting down their own citizens in thestreet...is not enough to affect trade, it seemsto me corporate America would have to argue tradewith Germany in the 1930s was okay," Bauer said...
Such pressures affect those who work daily to fight stigma. Consider Michael Faenza. "If I didn't take medication for depression, I would drink a quart of Jack Daniels every week to slow my thoughts enough to go to sleep," he said recently. At first he asked that the comment not be printed. But then he reconsidered: he is, after all, president of the National Mental Health Association, a 90-year-old advocacy group. "That's one of the pieces in this puzzle, to remove the shame," Faenza says. "It takes some courage to do that...
...Avoid use of illegal drugs like cocaine." Marcia Levin Pelchat, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, offers a simple piece of advice: "Stay healthy." Elderly people who are healthy have better flavor perception than sick elderly people. In addition, hundreds of medications are known to affect the sense of taste, and people 65 or older take between 2.9 and 3.7 medications--more if they live in a nursing home...