Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depths of reading period the value of my old friend the 'Muffin has finally been driven home in the caffeine-slurping vacuum that was once my brain. Gone are the 79 cent days in personal study paradise...
...Muffin actually was a good place to study, too. The background buzz of conversation and warm restaurant smells gives concentration something to work against...other than the whirling fantasies of a studious mind. At the 'Muffin, during those five minute study pauses absolutely necessary for prevention of brain damage, you avoided suffering through the stifled mutters and echoing snuffles of bored undergraduates. Instead, the Bottomless Mug patron can sit back and happily soak in the gentle bustle of cafe life, and then, refreshed, ease back into work...
...rebels until just before Attorney General Edwin Meese announced it to the public on Nov. 25. Last week the CIA released a statement reiterating the director's earlier contention that he was informed only of "tenuous speculation" about the contra funding. Casey is recovering from surgery for a brain tumor, and reports circulated last week that he is having trouble speaking and cannot stand or walk. Few in Washington believe he will rejoin the CIA or give any further testimony on the arms scandal...
...electronic countermeasure devices -- the "black boxes" designed to jam antiaircraft radar and missiles. So dissatisfied is the Pentagon with the equipment that it is withholding payments to the manufacturer, Eaton Corp. Shortcomings in the jamming hardware, for example, have triggered difficulties with other elements of the aircraft's computer "brain," with unforeseeable consequences. Some $104 million of the money requested for repairing the B-1B is earmarked for this software system. Last week Eaton tacitly confirmed its problems with the black box by ousting the manager of the B-1B electronics project...
...Abnormal brain structure in dyslexics may also be caused by excessive levels of the hormone testosterone in the fetus...