Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become the world's unrivaled financial heavyweight is Yoshihisa Tabuchi, 56, a forceful and intensely competitive 32- year Nomura veteran, who became its president in 1985. A former salesman and retail-branch manager, Tabuchi believes Nomura's aggressive style of selling and dealmaking can work in any market, no matter what the language or currency. Nomura, after all, has a big advantage over foreign rivals -- and Tabuchi knows it. Says he: "Japan has simply become the world's source of capital...
...National Institutes of Health. Their report was merciless: "The hypothesis that water can be imprinted with a memory of past solutes is as unnecessary as it is fanciful." The behavior of the weird water was only a delusion, they concluded, based on flawed experimentation. But the matter did not end there. Nature was still smarting from the criticism that it lent credence to the whole messy business by publishing the report in the first place...
Water memory was more serious. If true, it meant that water was somehow able to retain a memory of substances that had been dissolved in it. Physicists and biologists would have to drastically alter their view of matter, and pharmacologists would have to rethink conventional drug treatment. Moreover, homeopathic medicine, a fringe practice in the U.S. that is widespread in France, would get a boost. Homeopaths believe that extremely dilute solutions of some potentially harmful drugs, vigorously shaken -- a common homeopathic technique -- can treat disease...
...choice is more than a mere wanting. It is a profound longing, a matter of identity. David's younger brother Stephen wants only to play football for West Virginia and go on from there to play professionally, even if it means leaving the hills and the coal mines. David wants his father's identity, his land and context...
...matter how creative the entertainment, however, the children find it hard to keep going, going, going as they head into the final stretch late each afternoon. "For ten hours a day, these kids have to interact with about 20 or 30 kids," says Katie Humes, who takes care of the children at day care. "Imagine if we adults had to constantly be trying to get along with that many people. And then some parents come expecting to take their kid to gymnastics or some other lesson. And they wonder why the child is crying. It can all be too much...