Word: levers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school biology textbook offered an illustration: if an electrode is attached to the pleasure center of a rat's brain and the rat is given access to a lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...
...This is, I think, the lever that will allow us to improve the quality of the educational experience for both our undergraduates and our graduate students," Knowles said shortly before the announcement...
...addition, other state schools can use the lever of a full scholarship or low tuition to attract students from their home state. Still, Hoxby says, graduates from these schools would see their education as no bargain--over their careers, tier-three graduates will make a total of about $400,000 less than tier one graduates...
...steering wheel, brake and gas pedals, and substituted his two magical, Copernican creations: on the right, a long, horizontal column coming out of the dashboard, ending with a small steering wheel that turned with no resistance, as seamlessly as a radio dial; and on the left, a more delicate lever--pull in for brake, push out for gas. With each effortless motion came a whooshing sound as the vacuum pump he'd devised moved the brake or accelerator...
...dance, Ames, Iowa, is the place to be this Saturday, especially for Republicans. G.O.P. presidential candidates want your support in the quadrennial straw poll--a voting exercise with the precision and meaning of a Ouija board that has taken on life-or-death significance for some candidates. To entice lever pullers, campaigns have bought scores of tickets ($25 a head), hauled supporters across the state on fleets of free air-conditioned buses, and bedecked the faithful with hats, shirts and stickers. The afternoon promises to be a toe-tapping jamboree as attendees gorge themselves on pulled pork and sweet corn...