Word: beta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of some MIT traternitics say most of the brothers entertain themselves through drinking games. A member of Beta...
Paley's move signaled the final transfer of power to his hand-chosen successor, CBS President Thomas Wyman, 52. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, Wyman joined the company in June 1980 after holding top positions at Polaroid, Green Giant and Pillsbury...
...TIME'S European economic correspondent and when he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank editing two international business newsletters. A West German-born foreign exchange student who came to the U.S. in 1950 to go to Milwaukee's Pulaski High School, Ungeheuer went on to become a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in government from Harvard. After working for Reuters as a foreign correspondent, he joined TIME'S Paris bureau in 1963. His most frenzied week working abroad came when he visited four countries in Africa in 48 hours ("literally by plane, Land Rover and dugout canoe") to report...
Brantigan, who has occasionally taken propranolol to calm himself before delivering a speech, admits that his study poses an ethical dilemma. Propranolol is strong stuff. It belongs to a class of drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken...
There is, however, growing evidence that beta blockers have uses beyond their current applications. Good results have been reported in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychological disorders. A West German study shows that beta blockers can change Type A behavior, a pattern of aggressiveness linked to a higher risk of heart attack, into calmer Type B behavior...