Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recommending or suggesting that Harvard begin paying students for extracurricular activities. We would like to point out, however, that the joy over paying students to perform community service may have been elicited for the wrong reasons. Who are we happy for? Harvard students or the illiterate children of Cambridge...
...Clinton had abruptly intervened shortly after mignight four minutes into a strike by the carrier's 90,000 employees. The airline said fewer than 100 flights worldwide were affected by the walkout, comparing its impact to less than a bad storm at one of its hubs. Much to the joy of skittish travelers, American says it will be back to normal by Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back alienated customers. The strike is suspended, but not over. President Clinton ordered a 60 day "cooling...
...string of stunning courtroom victories for the ex-football great, was topped off by a jury order that Simpson pay $8.5 million to compensate the Goldmans for the death of their son. As the verdict was read, Simpson remained stoic, staring straight ahead. Across the courtroom, a whoop of joy was heard from relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. "Yes!" screamed sister Kim Goldman, in contrast to the way she sobbed openly when Simpson was acquitted of murder 16 months ago. She and her mother and father clasped hands in jubilation, and in a press conference after...
...Washington psychologist Geraldine Dawson and her colleagues have monitored the brain-wave patterns of children born to mothers who were diagnosed as suffering from depression. As infants, these children showed markedly reduced activity in the left frontal lobe, an area of the brain that serves as a center for joy and other lighthearted emotions. Even more telling, the patterns of brain activity displayed by these children closely tracked the ups and downs of their mother's depression. At the age of three, children whose mothers were more severely depressed or whose depression lasted longer continued to show abnormally low readings...
...fibers, the newly discovered photographs of Simpson wearing the Bruno Magli shoes that he denied owning. "There's a killer in this courtroom," Petrocelli declared, pointing at Simpson. Quoting a 16th century French poet, Petrocelli concluded, "'My lovely living boy, my hope, my happiness, my love, my life, my joy.' Fred Goldman's lovely living boy is no more...