Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freud's description--play. Starting with a vaguely Piagetian hypothesis that play with toys allows children to heighten their awareness of the relation between the subjective "I" and the surrounding world, Erikson goes on to sketch a very rough schema of the ways people in our culture continue to grow and negotiate their place in society through various forms of ritualized game-playing. He finally extends his discussion to military war games and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and the brief glimpse it gave of the potential of ritualized protest for calling the status quo into question while...
American children grow up, Coles said, with conflicting ideals, and it is this conflict that often causes drug abuse, delinquency and alcoholism...
...discuss the already apparent shortage. Six months after the Arab oil embargo in 1973, we held a second conference, recognizing that in a few short years, the energy crisis had become one of the greatest challenges facing the free world: How do we continue our present course, and grow in the future, as the fuels that power our lives disappear...
...lessen its inflationary impact, the auto tax would start low and climb high. Initially it would be around $400 for cars that get ten miles or less to the gallon; by 1985 the tax could grow to as much as $2,500. By contrast, the rebate would start out in the $300 range for the most economical cars (those that get 39 miles or more to the gallon) and rise to a maximum of $500 by 1985. The distribution of such a variety of rebates would doubtless be a burdensome bureaucratic chore. The purpose of the plan is to give...
...have been taken in the conquest of a disease so frightening that it is enshrined in the old Lingala curse "Owa na ntolo " (May you die of sleeping sickness). At Nairobi's International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past, whenever researchers tried to culture...