Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
Another threat is a U.S. recession, brought on either by inflation or by dollar-propping actions-primarily a sharp boost in interest rates-that will have to be more drastic the longer they are put off. Top administrative aides privately express concern that the U.S. may be faced with a combination of high inflation and serious recession by the time the 1980 election campaign starts gathering momentum...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., explaining why, in his book about Alabama Judge Frank Johnson Jr., he did not mention the suicide of Johnson's son: "I'd seen what the press made of things that had happened to my family. I don't think I can express how deep a hurt that...
Kennedy comes out on top in his split with Carter over national health insurance: by 40% to 24%, the voters surveyed agree with Kennedy that the President's program is inadequate. In handling the economy, only 12% of those polled express much confidence in Carter, whereas 34% say they would have a high degree of confidence in Kennedy's managing the economy if he were President. The voters show a similar faith in Kennedy's ability to deal with foreign affairs...
...case. The classics were so boring, their mastery so much a special skill, that most people were instinctively irritated at anyone good at them. It was unfair. Again, those who spend a lot of time working have, inevitably, to cut themselves off from the community - thus appearing to express a dislike of the community. The community resents this (unless, which was emphatically not the case at this time, a tenet of the community is to respect the individual more than itself). Time spent on games, on the other hand, is by its nature communal. And although success in other fields...