Word: coping
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...evidence that proteins play a role in learning. Hyden (pronounced he-dayn) trained rats and then killed them so that their brains could be studied. He found that certain nervous-system proteins were produced in greater amounts during the first part of learning, when the animals were striving to cope with a new problem; overtraining the animals produced no higher levels of the substances. Hyden then injected animals with antibodies against the protein, which is called S-100. The injection, which blocked the protein's activity, also caused the animals' learning rate to lessen markedly. Other findings tend...
Much of the caution stems from a recognition that something momentous happened last year: after a long period of almost splendid isolation, the U.S. economy joined the rest of the world. As a result, the nation had to cope with events over which it had only partial control...
Sirica used his same rugged courtroom common sense to cope with the challenge of a historic constitutional clash between branches of Government. Even a President must respond to subpoenas for evidence in criminal cases, Sirica ruled. Judges, not the President, must ultimately decide whether claims of Executive privilege to withhold such evidence are valid. Presidents, in short, are not above the law. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld him; and in the end, Nixon gave up, partly because he feared that the Supreme Court would also see it Sirica...
...pass the Emergency Energy Bill, which would have given the Administration power to impose rationing and take other conservation steps. It will take up the bill again when it reconvenes Jan. 21. The Administration can now argue that it has prepared itself to take any steps necessary to cope with the fuel shortage, even measures that violate its own free-market inclinations, if Congress would only give it the power...
...Detroit says another system, still being developed, would cope with the nitrogen oxides...