Word: aryeh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hire him, and explains that his black boxes include a "fail safe" mechanism that prevents clients from playing anything but the message he has programmed into them. Still, many Americans would undoubtedly be outraged by any secret at tempts to influence their behavior for better or worse. As Aryeh Neier, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, puts it, "People have a right to go about their business without being subjected to manipulation they don't even know about...
Once able to locate the brain's opiate receptors, scientists can use their new strategies to draw a biochemical map of all the other neurotransmitters and to learn how chemicals plug into the brain. At Northwestern University, Aryeh Routtenberg is studying the chemical pathways of the brain's reward system, which when stimulated produces sensations of pleasure. If schizophrenics are indeed on a dopamine "high."; their internal reward systems may be constantly turned on. His University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various...
...cosmetic modifications by Sadat to the original U.S. proposals. A senior Cabinet member remarked: "Here a change, there a word?as long as these changes are not substantial?it will be okay with us." But there were also warnings that Begin would not yield on substance. Said Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor: "We will not go beyond our 'red line.' Begin simply thinks that any further compromise will endanger Israel's capability to survive. It depends now on strong nerves and an ability to withstand psychological pressure...
Frank Collin, 33, is a swaggering bullyboy who likes to dress up in a Nazi uniform, spout totalitarian dogma and howl racial slurs. Aryeh Neier, 41, the son of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, runs the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that protects individual freedoms. For the past 14 months, Neier and the A.C.L.U. have defended the right of Collin and a small band of brownshirts to taunt the citizens of Skokie, Ill., thousands of whom are survivors of Nazi death camps...
...well mean that the person will be put to death," says Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "The sense of responsibility will be greater." And although the American Civil Liberties Union lost its battle to keep Gilmore from the firing squad, Executive Director Aryeh Neier says he is "determined to make it as difficult as possible to execute anyone else...