Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precise drug dosages for individuals are undoubtedly years off, for Kalman's is a counsel of pharmacological perfection. Nonetheless, he and two fellow pharmacologists at Stanford, Drs. Avram Goldstein and Lewis Aronow, have given it considerable impetus with their exhaustive, 884-page study, Principles of Drug Action (Hoeber Medical Division of Harper & Row). The differences among patients in their reactions to drugs may be caused by race, individual heredity, personal idiosyncrasy, or allergic reaction. Enzyme deficiencies and abnormal hemoglobins are found among Negroes and some Mediterranean peoples. In as many as 10% of Negro males, normal doses...
...bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which 250 executives were given lengthy, detailed counsel on methods of blocking the infiltrators...
...playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...
Though he conceived, wrote, directed and stars in Marry Me, Marry Me, Berri knows better than to make his film a one-man show. The best performances, in fact, are given not by the youths but by their satiated elders who long ago seized life by the throat-only to find that they had killed it. The best of a talented troupe is Isabelle's much older sister, Marthe (Regine), a doughy redhead who believes that sex appeal, like flour, is measured by the pound. As Isabelle's hag-ridden father, Gregoire Asian can convey more with...
...possesses relatively little power. The City Manager has far more. Under the City's proportional representation system of elections, city councillors get to be city councillors by appealing, each to his own, to small, well defined groups of voters who usually live in one specific area of the City. Given their lack of power, city councillors try to satisfy "their people" in small ways--for example by getting them a traffic light--and by emotion-charged appeals with few implications for concrete action...