Word: fighting
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When primitive man found himself confronting a savage beast, according to the great physiologist Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945), his hormone system poured out a flood of adrenaline to equip him equally well for "fight or flight." Now it is known that the hormone system is far more complex. Besides adrenaline, and perhaps more important, there are the hormones produced in the adrenal gland's cortex-hydrocortisone and closely related compounds. And a new study indicates that today's fighting man, far from flooding himself with such hormones in times of stress, actually finds subconscious ways to suppress...
During the fight to keep the oil from the Torrey Canyon off the beaches, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson reported to Commons last week, "We did not wait to settle matters of finance, compensation or legal liability." Now that the crisis is abating, he continued, "the government is urgently considering the question of claims." Britain, said the Prime Minister, intends to sue the Union Oil Co. of California for damages due to the wreck of its supertanker. If the suit ever gets to court, it will further complicate what is fast becoming not only the most costly maritime...
...insurance is not adequate, Union Oil will presumably have to bear the brunt of the claims. Conceivably, Union could fight back by entering a countersuit against the British government for, of all things, piracy. Although British fighter planes bombed the ship "in defense of the realm," the Torrey Canyon at the time was actually outside British territorial waters...
...since 1963, a survivor of the days when rails, not planes, carried the U.S. public, who started out at 16 with the Erie, climbed the traditional ladder to the presidency of the New York Central in 1952, only to be forced out two years later in a raucous proxy fight, then moved on to the Delaware and Hudson and the Erie Lackawanna, which he highballed from a $17 million loss in 1963 to a $6,700,000 profit last year; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W.--the use of force to correct a current grievance, perhaps someday a general strike, but no permanent collective bargaining and no contracts which only bind you when you want to fight, as the "wobblies" said. There is little perspective of time. The emphasis is on the event and not the process. And thus there is little consideration of all of the long-term consequences. Strategy and tactics are combined in a program of action...