Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deprivation dwarfs often show the symptoms of their syndrome by the age of two. Extremely shy, unable to control their tempers, insatiably hungry and thirsty (drinking water out of toilet bowls is one sign), they crave bizarre food substitutes for the love they miss. Indeed, when doctors can find no organic cause for a stunted child, they look for strange behavior as the key to diagnosis. Although few parents are candid about an unhappy home, researchers have compiled a list of typical situations, including alcoholism, sexual incompatibility, illness, beatings, unemployment and unwanted pregnancies...
When an optical instrument is shaken or moved, two tiny gyroscopes in the Dynalens collar sense the motion and send signals that control miniature electric motors connected to the glass plates at each end of the prism. The motors, which respond almost instantaneously to movements of the optical instrument, tilt the plates to change the shape of the prism, thus bending the incoming light beams just enough to compensate for the motion. The result is a clear and remarkably steady image...
...first presidential press con ference last week, Richard Nixon placed the nation's economic problems on his list of matters that "require urgent attention." Promising "some fine tuning of our fiscal and monetary affairs to control inflation," the President expressed considerable concern over the rate at which prices are rising. "We believe it is possible to control inflation without in creasing unemployment in any substantial way," said Nixon. But he warned...
...Unless we do control inflation, we will be confronted eventually with massive unemployment, because the history of economic affairs in this and other countries indicates that if inflation is allowed to get out of hand, eventually there has to be a bust...
...rather unusual for a company to declare a $55-per-share dividend. When the payout is voted by a board filled with newcomers from another company that has just acquired control, eyebrows go up all around. Last week they were raised when Manhattan-based Great American Insurance Co. decided to dip into its $300 million surplus to distribute a total of about $171 million in securities. Reason: National General Corp., a Los Angeles-based moviemaker and would-be conglomerate, recently picked up 75% control of Great American Holding Corp., the fire and casualty insurance firm's parent holding company...