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McFarland was one of the first researchers to show how lack of oxygen could impair the sensory perception and mental functioning of pilots and mountaineers...
...which Hudson followed, in the process of making her decision about leaving, might be considered fairly typical for the category of leave-takers who do feel themselves in trouble. The Bureau of Study Counsel serves as the major point of consultation for those students considering leaves, whose problems either impair academic performance or are specifically academic in character. Those whose crises are of a purely personal nature and are not facing academic difficulties are generally referred elsewhere, usually to the University Health Services (UHS) for consultation with a psychiatrist, according to Kiyo Morimoto, the associate director of the bureau...
...Soviet Union, its rapprochement with Communist China at the probable expense of Taiwan and its negotiations with Panama to relinquish gradually total U.S. control over the Panama Canal. The platform committee took up the canal issue first, rejecting Reagan language banning treaty modifications that would "in any degree impair or relinquish U.S. sovereign rights and control over the Canal Zone." Ford backers instead accepted vague wording under which the G.O.P. acknowledged that the U.S. now has rights in the zone as "if it were the sovereign" and should not give up any power crucial to U.S. security...
...meeting in "neutral" Oslo, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland and Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agústsson signed a six-month agreement that could end what had become an increasingly acrimonious disagreement between the two NATO allies (they broke off diplomatic relations last February) and was even threatening to impair the alliance itself...
...more with Ford, so that there was no misunderstanding. He understood, he told the President, that events could make it necessary for him to resign to prevent Ford's political defeat. Kissinger was ready and willing on signal. And he would do it so that it would not impair the continuity of America's foreign policy. Just what signal Ford would give Kissinger is a greater secret than what the Secretary talks about in the Kremlin. But the understanding between President and Secretary is complete...