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...elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down if the stress signal, e.g., an electric shock, is merely increased in intensity, also if an unwonted time lag is left between the signal and the food that follows, or if signals are simply mixed. A fourth way, and to Dr. Sargant the most important for human analogy, is to wear a dog dowri by subjecting it to excessive work (on a treadmill), upsetting its stomach with irregular feedings...
...therefore a peacekeeper. I'm all for it." Ben Schriever adds: "Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy...
Other economists thought that inflation's peak had probably passed, at least for the time being, but that the overall index might well rise higher in the next few months owing to the time lag on slow-reacting items such as housing. More sensitive indexes charting the prices of wholesale goods, especially raw materials, already seemed to be tapering off or falling. And though consumers are still buying heavily, they are not so anxious to go into debt. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President George Champion: "The tendency to overextend consumer credit is beginning to right itself. Down payments have...
...these performances fail to be consistently effective, the fault is partly that of the director, Richard Smithies. While inventive enough in his staging, Smithies sometimes lets the pace of the production lag. But then, The Doctor's Dilemma contains some stretches which would strain the abilities of any drama group...
...professor emeritus Dr. Graham continued his research. Last fall he was working on a technical paper describing the time lag which may occur between the painting of tar on animals and the appearance of cancer, and speculating that heavy smokers may get lung cancer years after they quit. Said Graham then: "I shouldn't be surprised if I died of lung cancer...