Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel that Kissinger wanted to bury the Palestinian issue in Lebanon to ensure that there would be no Palestinian issue to confront the existence of Israel...
...they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas professor who has studied emotional disturbance in adopted adolescents. "Some children feel that being adopted means having been rejected by birth families. That's very difficult to accept...
...levels. But, as Moore points out, the low-cholesterol people did not live longer on average, because some of them died from other ailments. Whether this was by chance or the result of low cholesterol remains an open question. That puzzling outcome does not overly impress most researchers. They feel that as additional, longer studies are completed, it will be proved that lowering cholesterol can prolong life. In the meantime, it makes sense for people to try to reduce their risk of heart disease and take their chances with other illnesses...
...weren't born with the ability to taste carbon dioxide or see the ozone layer, but science and technology have evolved to fill the gap to help us measure what we cannot feel or taste or see. We have old numbers with which, like old photographs, we can gauge the ravages of time and our own folly. In that sense, the "technological fix" that is often wishfully fantasized -- cold fusion, anyone? -- has already appeared. The genius of technology has already saved us, as surely as the Ghost of Christmas Future saved Scrooge by rattling the miser's tight soul until...
...afford to wait if we want to survive. While we are waiting for this sea change of attitude, we could pretend -- a notion that sounds more whimsical than it is. Scientists have found that certain actions have a feedback effect on the actor. Smilers actually feel happier; debaters become enamored of their own arguments; a good salesman sells himself first. You become what you pretend to be. We can pretend to be unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real...