Word: doses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead we look to the contemporary record of the De Gaulle-Pompidou or Wilson-Jenkins austerity regimes in France and Britain respectively. instituted in response to inflated currency difficulties similar to those confronting this country plus a heavy dose of U.S. financial pressure, we discover levels of living roughly equivalent to the more successful U.S. ghetto dweller, with newer and more severe restrictions imminent for England under the present Tory regime...
...movement, she found, was also infested with "glib touchers," "sensual pedants" and "sensitivity heads," people who pretended to be growing but were actually addicts who had to have "a maintenance dose of intimacy." Physical contact, she decided, could be a very effective way of avoiding emotional contact. Did Dr. William Schutz, author of Joy, really think he was increasing intimacy in a group by issuing each man a gynecological speculum and inviting him to examine his partner's vagina? And what was really in the mind of Paul Bindrim, an advocate of nude marathons, when he spread a young...
...over 21, and some are in their 50s. Only half finished high school; half are on welfare when they matriculate. Few U.S. colleges would accept or could afford such students. Yet the tuition-free College for Human Services pays them $2.10 an hour to swallow a massive dose of social sciences and earn a two-year Associate in Arts degree that is recognized anywhere in the country. The result may well be the most refreshing experiment in U.S. higher education...
...into four groups of ten each. Three groups spent an hour each weekday afternoon for nine weeks in the makeshift tavern. The members of one group were given 12 ounces of beer each; those of the second, a glass of nonalcoholic fruit punch; the third, fruit punch containing a dose of thioridazine, a psychotropic (mind-affecting) drug for the treatment of senility. Members of the fourth group, which was established as a control, stayed in the ward and got their usual dose of thioridazine straight...
...doctor is still supposed to prescribe it for only one condition, the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might cause coma and death. Yet by this criterion lithium carbonate is no more dangerous than digitalis or insulin. Despite their poor profit prospects, three U.S. drug manufacturers are now marketing the compound as a public service. No one knows how many U.S. mental patients qualify for it: the figure most often...