Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stevens believes the ACSR faces two major problems in deciding on questions of withdrawal. First, the committee must acquire "a decent base of information on which to judge," he says. "The second problem is you have to have some feel for what is net negative and net positive in South Africa," he adds. To obtain information, the ACSR and Corporation often write directly to companies, and sometimes Corporation members who know company directors can use their personal relationships to extract information...
Enormous regional variations in food production contribute to uneven distribution, he said. With 17 per cent of China's people living below the base level nutrition standards, the average life span is about 60 years, he added...
...double bind, which holds that schizophrenia arises from a prolonged dose of conflicting instructions, as, say, when a mother tells a child not to eat sweets, yet is constantly rewarding it with candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly be transmitted by viruses. In any case, the new pharmacological researchers no longer regard schizophrenia as a single ailment but, like cancer, as a collection of different malfunctions. In schizophrenia, the common...
...gesture was eloquent. Emerging from the doorway of Air Force One on the floodlit tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base last week, an exhausted Jimmy Carter greeted several thousand welcomers by flinging open his arms. It was a movement that oddly combined a sense of triumph with just a hint of martyrdom. Said Carter: "I believe that God has answered our prayers...
...come, and the Empress, who in exile has become his rock and his shield, screens out the importunate. One welcome arrival last week, however, was Crown Prince Reza, 18, their oldest son, who had won his pilot's wings after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...