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...applied, but that fact doesn't interfere with the parties taking place in Washington. The "flyers" of transcendental meditation spend $5,000 and up to learn how to bounce around on a rubber mattress, but they never get airborne. No amount of evidence against any transcendental claims will dampen the fervor of the believers...
...lesson seemed to be that the accusation of unintentional discrimination can be used as a weapon to dampen free speech and impugn the motives of innocent people...
...United Way of America does not raise much money itself. Instead, it is supported by dues of the 2,100 - chapters around the nation that perform the lion's share of the fund raising and giving. The unseemly image of charity officials living high on the hog threatened to dampen future donations and tarnish the squeaky-clean image of the nation's premier nonreligious charity. By the middle of last week, more than 15 chapters -- including some of the nation's largest, those in San Francisco and New York -- had moved to withhold their annual dues to the national organization...
Role-playing programs give them a crash course. At Hunterdon, students' faces are instantly aged with cornstarch and makeup. Next the disabilities are laid on: yellow goggles smeared with Vaseline distort vision, wax plugs dampen hearing, gloves and splints cripple fingers, and peas inside shoes impair walking. Then the ersatz invalids are asked to perform common tasks: purchasing medication at the pharmacy, undressing for X rays, filling out a Medicare form and, most humiliating, using the bathroom...
Turnout at the Cambridge polls was extremely low yesterday, but that did not dampen the spirits of supporters of Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who sipped wine and feasted on roast turkey at a post-election party for the mayor last night...