Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemical restore lost or weakened memory? In reports to the journal Lancet, scientists suggest that a hormone found in the pituitary gland may have that effect. The remarkable mnemonic is vasopressin, which was previously known to help regulate the body's water content. The levels of vasopressin in the blood appear to decrease after about the age of 50, just when many people begin to complain of failing memories...
...Fifty-nine more were returned in the next ten years, and another 145 in the past five. Under economic pressure, several insurance firms began an aggressive public relations campaign, including up to $10 million worth of hard-hitting "advocacy advertisements" in publications such as TIME, Wall Street Journal and New Republic. The ads point to "windfall awards" and suggest that jurors must eventually pay for them through higher premiums...
...much debated vote by its membership four years ago, the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality should not be defined as a disorder. For many psychiatrists, that poll has hardly disposed of the issue-as a new survey by Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality shows. The journal sent questionnaires to 10,000 members of the A.P.A., and compiled the first 2,500 responses. Of those answering, 69% said they believed "homosexuality is usually a pathological adaptation, as opposed to a normal variation," 18% disagreed and 13% were uncertain. Similarly, sizable majorities said that homosexuals are generally less happy than heterosexuals...
...example, according to studies done by the National Journal, nine Northeastern states sent $12.6 billion more to Washington in taxes during fiscal 1976 than they received in federal expenditures; the five Great Lakes states came out $20.1 billion net losers in their dealings with the Treasury. Meanwhile, Southern states received $12.6 billion more from Washington than they paid, and the West cleared more than $10 billion. Other figures show a similar disparity: defense payrolls and contracts averaged $282 per person in the Northeast, compared with $368 in the South and $565 in the West. In a gentle debate with Busbee...
...became an outspoken civil libertarian, fighting against the autocratic and nationalist provincial government of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Early on, Trudeau accepted the idea of Quebec as a nation and a people, but never saw the necessity that it be a political state. As he later wrote in his political journal Cite Libre (Open City), ethnically based governments are "by nature intolerant, discriminatory, and, when all is said and done, totalitarian...