Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wanted: statesmanlike figure bearing close resemblance to James Madison (or someone who at least has read him) to direct possible second Constitutional Convention devoted to balancing budget and perhaps other matters. No Keynesians need apply. Address: Box 1787, c/o U.S. Congress...
...agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they get their money. It would help if those who worry about CIA activities would direct the same attention to those who work so hard to tear us apart...
...Virtually everything needs to be done," Fang has said in summarizing China's technological position. As president of China's Academy of Sciences, he is interested in all areas of direct scientific research. After a talk last week with White House Science Adviser Frank Press on future Chinese-American projects, Fang left for Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. There he inspected the Landsat photographs surveying natural resources and a solar-energy farm that can produce 400 kw of electricity. In Houston, he visited the Texas Medical Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Methodist Hospital. But the highlight...
According to Bloch, all children find the parental power over life and death highly threatening. Since children find it too dangerous to direct anger and terror at their parents, those emotions are displaced onto witches, goblins and other fantasy figures. Usually a temporary retreat into fantasy is enough to exorcise the child's fear. But sometimes, especially if a youngster is subjected to severe parental abuse, perhaps beatings, the child can turn to potentially damaging reveries, including ones about changes in sexual role. In effect, the child says: "Maybe Daddy would really love me if I were...
...scoring lead. Bossy, a pure shooter with lightning hands, leads the league in goals with 38. Hovering in the background (19 goals and 45 assists) is Gillies, and at 6 ft., 3 in., 224 lbs., he looms large indeed to harried defenders. Gillies comes up with the puck the direct way: he sweeps the boards of bodies, then passes off the puck they leave behind. With Denis Potvin, the only defenseman other than Bobby Orr to notch two 30-goal seasons, bringing up the rear, an Islanders' onslaught can be awesome. According to Chicago Black Hawk Center Stan Mikita...