Word: depress
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archy and mehitabel, an adaptation of don marquis's story of a cat and a cockroach who couldn't depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...
...barn door after the horse walked out whistling Yankee-Doodle," says Donald Albanito, a dean at Illinois' Bradley University, who was sequestered in the 1967 trial of Murderer Richard Speck. Moreover, Albanito wonders "whether being immersed every day in questions of alleged political intrigues may not so depress the jurors that they would be willing to believe anything evil about everyone involved. I think people get a better view of the world sitting at home than they do locked up with eleven strangers they can quickly learn to dislike...
...royalty assurances, then, they can only work if they are written into U.S. law. The prospect of such a bill ever getting to Congress is, naturally, viewed askance by many dealers and most collectors, who contend that it would diminish or even wreck the art market, depress prices, and discourage new collectors. These critics raise other objections: Why should an artist be entitled to a piece of the profit every time his work is resold when an architect, say, must settle for a single flat fee for designing a building that may be resold a dozen times? What...
...Marijuana acts, at least in part, by temporarily depressing the nervous system-apparently without serious effect. But a team of researchers from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons reports in Science that the drug can also depress the immune system, which helps protect the body against disease organisms. The team bases its report on a study of 51 young men and women who used marijuana regularly. Taking T-lymphocytes, or immunologically active white blood cells, from the pot smokers and from 81 healthy, nonsmoking volunteers, the doctors mixed the cells in test tubes with substances known...
EXPORTERS and companies with extensive foreign operations could be hit. The reason is that the Arab oil production cutbacks are likely to depress industry in Europe far more deeply than in the U.S. Argus Research Corp., which analyzes securities, speculates that reduced capital spending in Europe will hurt Westinghouse worse than General Electric, whose foreign operations are mostly in Canada and South America. Kaiser and Alcoa, which market little of their aluminum abroad, will not suffer as much as Alcan Aluminium and Reynolds Metals, which...