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...just released results showed that compulsive gamblers, drinkers and drug users have high underlying levels of negative emotionality, a syndrome that includes nervousness, anger and a tendency to worry and feel victimized. Significantly, they also score lower in the so-called constraint category, meaning they are given to impulsiveness and thrill seeking. That's a bad combination, particularly when you throw drugs, drink or gambling into the mix. "It's like picking your poison," says psychologist Avshalom Caspi of King's College in London, one of the researchers in the study...
...which the election will be conducted. Indeed, the 200-seat National Assembly, where Marcos' ruling New Society Movement enjoys a two-thirds majority, last week passed an election reform bill stipulating that district and village officials, many of whom are loyal to Marcos, will oversee the polling. Under constitutional constraint to resign before participating in new elections, Marcos submitted a letter of resignation that would take effect ten days after the votes are counted and a winner proclaimed. He defended that move with the bizarre argument that the constitution specified only that he resign, not when...
...Undergraduate Council, the body charged with funding student groups, organizing events on campus and engaging in student advocacy, is in a similar situation. The difference is that it has $330,000 in its account and it’s all your money. Tempting as it is, a relaxed budget constraint doesn’t necessarily have to result in relaxed judgment. One of the greatest challenges for this year’s council will be ensuring this does not happen...
...faced severe budget constraints in recent years, with ambitious projects in Allston leaving it with a heavy tax burden and a stagnant economy hurting donation numbers. In 2003’s annual letter to the Faculty, Kirby referred to a “period of greater financial constraint,” which has seen budget cuts and layoffs across the University...
This explains the panoply of national flags in the “community quilts.” Gogel stresses, though, that the Art Squatters would like to incorporate as many viewpoints as possible despite the “bit of constraint from the owner...