Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington for all-expense-paid weekend seminars, short-term research projects and yearlong fellowships. Its goal: to deepen U.S. understanding of the Soviet Union. Says Kennan: "This is the only truly national institution devoted to Soviet studies. It can serve as an anchor in bad times and a channel for improved communications in good times...
...afternoon play, England's Virginia Wade was extended to three sets before downing cross-Channel challenger Betty Stove 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Wade now faces Natasha Chmyreva, a strong young Russian player who has won impressively in her opening matches...
SKINNER'S PURPOSE is to prove the humanists wrong. This most intimate of case studies documents almost every behavioral influence in his life. Vignettes of ancestors three generations back provide the genetic angle. Next comes the history of reinforcements and punishments which channel his growth. As a boy, for instance, he stole a trinket from a store, and felt guilty for a week. Later we learn of family field trips to prisons, and a grandmother's promises of hell "like the inside of a potbellied stove" for sinners. The connection is obvious...
...state of attentive neutrality, ready to receive, transform and make concrete mental images--"calling out" or "the body falls up," Chassler's working concept last fall. Like the surrealist's pen taking down words from a will other than the poet's conscious self, the body becomes a perfect channel. She becomes the words themselves...
...into vague economic reforms before saying briefly that he could be a "center" for negotiations. And even when asked to "be precise" about a full employment program, Carter will only say Americans have to sell more products abroad, the government must "remove incentives for corporations to move overseas," and "channel R&D into areas that would have greater impact on our jobs." There are no hows or whys behind anything he says. Just teeth--Cheshire cat teeth with an elusive image behind...