Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshmen, arriving, as they do, a week earlier, would not be intolerably hard put to adjust or to choose courses. In fact, it may not be unreasonable to expect that a dose of high-schoolish discipline early in the year before the Great Dissolution sets in may even be psychologically helpful to freshmen...
...from a century's medicinal use, says Dr. Mikuriya, shows that the drug is not a narcotic in the medical sense. It is not physiologically addicting, so there are no withdrawal pangs. There is little or no buildup of tolerance that would lead to the use of increasing doses, as is the case with the true narcotics-opium, its refined extracts (heroin, morphine' codeine) and their synthetic substitutes. Additionally, Dr. Mikuriya reported, cannabis is so nearly nonpoisonous that to kill one mouse requires 40,000 times the dose that makes a man high. By contrast, 20 times...
...economy has been ailing for months. During its early years of headlong economic growth-at average rates of 9% a year-Israel's imports raced beyond its exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the balance, the country in 1965 resorted to a tough dose of economic mitun (restraint), which slowed inflation, though at the cost of a standstill economy and mounting unemployment (now 8%) in Israel's 927,000-man labor force. Mitun was a casualty of the Six-Day War, as Israel was forced to simply print most...
...part of its continuing efforts to bolster the pound, Britain last month imposed a severe tax on all investment income exceeding $7,200. Though Brit ons have grown accustomed to bitter fiscal medicine, that dose has been particularly hard to swallow. Reason: the special one-year measure carries the country's progressive taxation to the point of confiscation, resulting in a tax bite that can, in higher income brackets, amount to more than...
McGeorge Bundy warned yesterday that the "existing system of government in the United States, already dangerously weak, needs a double dose of reinforcement--to meet both its present and future responsibilities...