Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charity), ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. "Those guys are going to get $200,000 next year," he fumed."There's going to be no end to it!" Last month he attached the 30% limit applying to Senators as an amendment to a supple mental appropriations bill. But the provision was killed in a Senate subcommittee...
...decided to quit tennis and go on to full-time graduate studies in astrophysics at Stanford. By 1978 she had a doctorate but no job. When NASA advertised for the first time in ten years for astronaut-scientists, she became one of 8,370 applicants. After grueling physical and mental examinations, including a session with two NASA psychiatrists who tried to crack her now celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik, a doctor of electrical engineering; Anna Fisher...
...chemical fumes he was exposed to during a summer factory job he held after sophomore year. The chronic pain never subsided until this spring, despite various treatments, and pushed Elliott into a state of clinical depression. "The pain was bad," he recalls without visible emotion, "but your mental state gets so dark that everything that had looked good is gray, and everything that had been bad is pure black...
...exciting, the only recent movie to fill the entertainment bill set by Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's too bad, though, that the progression is still in this direction. By the time we are 22, there will be little to look forward to in the way of mental escape...
...Hans Selye, the father of stress research, mapped the hormonal pathways shown in the illustration above some 40 years ago. Since then, scientists have found that stress provokes a number of even subtler chemical changes in the body that may have profound effects on health, both physical and mental. "There is a constant intertwining of stress systems," says Stanford Neurochemist Jack Barchas. "It's much like a symphony...