Word: impairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pigeon learns his pecking order; the increase in a third group lasts longer-from three to eleven months. From his observations, Bogoch postulates that memory is encoded in the protein-sugar combinations. As indirect proof, he has found that drugs that prevent the formation of body sugars also impair the memories of trained animals...
...easily detected by those who should be warned of the partial incapacitation of the potted. The quality of the mind depends on the sum of experiences in judging whether information is reliable or false. Chronic exposure to conditions which produce hallucination must impart memory reference which may impair long-term judgment. Proof that pot is safe or harmful will require study of thousands of habitual users over long periods of time to achieve statistical validity. Proof of deterioration of the health of cigarette smokers was established in this way. The evidence is strong for physiological, mental and social deterioration associated...
...course a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." He also pointed out that New York's "prohibition does not bar parents who so desire from purchasing the magazines for their children." As to whether or not girlie magazines and similar material actually impair-in the words of New York's law-"the ethical and moral development of youth," Brennan concluded that scientific evidence had neither proved nor disproved that point. Since the court does not require that legislatures have "scientifically certain criteria for legislation," there are no grounds for a finding that...
...largely peripheral. Yes, Video Boy devotes half an hour less to playtime than did the pre-TV child. No, TV does not discourage reading, but if anything, stimulates it. Yes, TV does help develop such prereading skills as scanning from left to right. No, normal viewing does not impair eyesight. Yes, TV has replaced reading and storytelling sessions with the parent. No, TV has no significant effect on school work; viewing has not encroached on school-related activities, but merely supplanted the time that used to be devoted to comic books and radio...
Even if Johnson signs the SACB bill, its effects will be limited. In many ways, the bill's supporters are whipping a dead horse. Present public opinion will not tolerate another full-scale McCarthy witchhunt. The Supreme Court has constantly cut down measures that impair basic freedoms under the nebulous guise of searching for "subversives." Only last month, the Court ruled in U.S. v. Eugene Robel that the Government cannot fire a man in a defense plant just because he is a member of the Communist Party; he must constitute a clear and present danger. Also Attorney General Ramsey Clark...