Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing study is based on two control groups, whose members answer questionnaires every two years. The Nurses' Health Study group, comprised of 80,082 women, was formed in 1976. The Health Professional Follow-up Study, comprised of 37,851 male health professionals, was formed 10 years later...
People have already started talking about school reform, and reporters have quizzed President Clinton about what policy initiatives he might take to make America's schools safer. Gun control activists are rushing to microphones, anxious to comment. Incredibly, even those against gun control are using the opportunity to defend their interpretation of the second amendment. (Could the rampage have been halted if one of the teachers had had a concealed weapon? one asked.) We should think about public policy...
...article also gives as an example of an "I" statement, "I think you are out of control." In our booklet, we use that very sentence as an example of a "You " statement disguised as an "I" statement. People with eating disorders are tyrannized by their own judgments of themselves, by others' judgments of them, and by what they perceive to be others' judgments of them. We encourage those who care about someone with an eating disorder not to express judgments or analysis of the person but to speak to that person with "I" statements, which express one's felt experience...
...women learned that Radcliffe had agreed to give up all control over undergraduate education, life went on as usual for most students--dining hall chatter aside...
...Minutemen were able to pack it in down the stretch, running a ball-control offense and waiting patiently for shots. UMass also converted 6-of-6 clears in the quarter...