Word: conditioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For the past few months, the Kremlinologists of the Carter Administration have been doing double duty as actuaries and diagnosticians, trying by remote means to calculate the risks of travel and take the pulse of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Chairman of...
No one has ever decided what television is really supposed to be for. Is the wondrous box meant to entertain? To elevate? To instruct? To anesthetize? The medium, in its sheer unknowable possibilities, seems to arouse extreme reactions: contempt for its banal condition as the ghetto of the sitcom, or...
These typical cases represent violations of one of medicine's sacred trusts: the patient's right to privacy. Under a credo that goes back to the Hippocratic oath, a physician is required to keep silent about what he is told or learns of a patient's condition...
The ominous inconvenience of the gasoline lines has aroused combinations of scapegoating and soul searching. While many Americans blame the oil companies, others regard American energy habits as a symptom of fundamental national weakness. There is an unhappy plausibility in the underlying premise that Americans have drifted into a condition...
White did not plead not guilty by reason of insanity, largely because no psychiatrist would say that he was sufficiently deranged. Schmidt asked the jury to find that White's "diminished mental capacity" left him unable to premeditate, deliberate, or harbor malice, the standards for first degree murder. One...