Word: doreen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease for which there is yet no treatment or cure? Some might want advance knowledge so they can prepare their families and put what is left of their lives in order. Others might prefer not knowing anything at all. "We may be able to see into the future," says Doreen Markel, a genetic counselor at the University of Michigan's Neurology Clinic. "But ask yourself: Do you really want to know what you're going...
...Milwaukee, Doreen and Robert Hamann bought their modest two-bedroom stone house 15 months ago with the help of a mortgage from the rapidly growing Wisconsin housing and economic development authority. Under its program, the 8.75% fixed-rate loan could be used for homes costing no more than $72,000. "At first I felt a little bitter to realize that we couldn't begin to live as nicely as our parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people...
...Doreen M. Kelly '85 said the lottery "may beginto be a consideration" when pre-freshmen hearabout it. About 400 Early Action "pre-frosh" willstay with freshman hosts during a three-day visitnext week...
During the menstrual cycle, the blood level of estrogen, a female sex hormone, rises sharply before ovulation, about midway in the cycle, and then drops again before menstruation occurs. In a study of 200 women, Doreen Kimura, a University of Western Ontario psychology professor, found that when levels of estrogen were high, the women showed greater verbal fluency and used their hands more skillfully than when levels were low. In one test of verbal dexterity, the women were asked to say "A box of mixed biscuits in a biscuit mixer" as fast as possible five times. Their average time...
Tied in with the tragicomic tale of Mickey and Bobby is the story of the shocks that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...